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NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
MADE PLAIN 



NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
MADE PLAIN 



BY 

KATE ATKINSON BOEHME 



PUBLISHED BY 

THE ELIZABETH TOWNE CO., Inc. 

HOLYOKE, MASS. 



L. N. FOWLER & CO. 
Ludgate Circus, London, Eng. 

1918 



COPYRIGHT, 1918 
KATE ATKINSON BOEHME 



m -4 1918 



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INTRODUCTION 

IN 1902 I wrote a book entitled ''Mental Heal- 
ing Made Plain." Today, sixteen years 
later, I have written another, "New Thought 
Healing Made Plain." The earlier book com- 
pared to the later is a tiny mountain rivulet, 
while the later is like a deep, wide river that had 
its birth in the rivulet. The stream of my 
thought has, in the passing of sixteen years of 
meditation and experience, grown to larger pro- 
portions, and yet I find upon rereading the first 
book that I still hold the same ideas, but see them 
in broader perspective and in clearer light. 

The later book contains very little of the 
subject-matter of the former. Here and there 
a phrase or a paragraph, occasionally a helpful 
illustration or incident, and that is all. On the 
other hand the latter book contains much that is 
not even hinted at in the former. I rejoice that 
I find nothing that I would contradict or unsay 
in my earlier writing, nothing that a larger experi- 
ence would prove to be untrue, for this convinces 
me that I have uttered Truth, since Truth, like 
God, is not subject to change or shadow of turning. 

Faithfully, 

The Author. 




CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

I. What is New Thought Healing? 9 

II. Thought is a Force 22 

III. The Subconscious Mind 34 

IV. The Superconscious Mind 46 

V. How TO Heal Yourself and Others .... 53 

VI. The Helping Hand 72 

VII. Ensouling Thought-Forms . 81 

VIII. The Quickening 89 

IX. The One Will 96 

X, Tapping Higher Levels of Energy .... 106 

XI. First Aids to Healing 119 

XII. New Thought Leads to the Blessed Life . 131 

XIII. Affirmations for Achievement 139 




CHAPTER ONE 

WHAT IS NEW THOUGHT HEALING? 

IF you are at all observant of life and its hap- 
penings, you will admit the fact that your 
thought aflfects your body for good or ill. You 
have discovered that worry, fear and anxiety 
lower your heart action, deaden your circulation, 
give you indigestion, headache, neuralgia and 
other ailments. It is said that a reiteration of 
worried thought beating on the same brain cells 
wears the cellular tissue so thin that finally it 
breaks, usually resulting in death. Even if the 
result is not so serious, a long siege of worry 
usually ends in a spell of sickness, which, by the 
way, is a preservative effort of Nature, as it 
turns worry into a new channel, so that it beats 
on a different set of brain cells, or, better still, 
stops worry altogether, for when one is very sick, 
the usual causes of worry do not matter much; 
in fact, nothing matters but the physical suffer- 
ing and how to get rid of it. 

This is a mere hint at the many ill effects of 
thought upon the body. We will not dwell upon 
them, but turn to the good effects of the health- 
giving thought, and more especially of New 
Thought. 



10 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

This brings us to the question — What is New 
Thought? I can think of no more perfect, full 
and complete definition of it than we find in those 
wonderful words of Schopenhauer — "Clear Vi- 
sion of the World." 

New Thought stands for a tremendous move- 
ment of the human mind toward the under- 
standing of things as they really are. From the 
beginning of human life on this planet, from our 
earliest savage ancestors, it has been a long, hard 
voyage of exploration and discovery, without 
a chart to guide, except that of pain or pleasure. 
I believe that Man has always instinctively 
sought the Truth, but has encountered it veiled; 
hence his false beliefs regarding it. In the evo- 
lution of a germ of Truth existing in each false 
belief lies the advance to ''Clear Vision of the 
World." 

We cannot imagine what this earth appeared 
to primal Man, but we know that it seemed under 
the dominion of grim, cruel forces, always ar- 
rayed against him in the struggle for existence. 

Now, in his clear vision he sees those forces as 
beneficent, all working toward his highest evolu- 
tion, all tending toward ultimate health, joy and 
general wellbeing. These states of mind and body 
cannot be laid on Man from the outside; they 
must be worked out from within, as a spider 
weaves its web out of its own substance. God 
does not confer Joy as an unearned gift upon 
Man. He brings it forth from him by means of 
the Divine Urge. 

As Man's enlarging intelligence compasses more 



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and more of creation he has discovered Thought 
to be a mighty though hidden Force. For that 
matter all Force is hidden, but in some instances 
the material means are evident, while in the 
working of Thought the mechanism is invisible 
and intangible. 

How is it that Thought acts upon the nerves 
and muscles of your body, causing motion .^^ Who 
ever saw a Thought when it so acted on nerve 
and muscle.^ No one has ever explained this 
mystery, and yet we accept it as a fact, not wholly 
because physiologists tell us it is so, but because 
we know it through our own experience. 

I see a book on the table. I think I would like 
to examine it. I am conscious of that thought. 
Then I think I will take it up. I am conscious 
of that thought also. Then I do take it up and 
I am conscious that in some mysterious way my 
thought has caused my hand to reach out to the 
table and draw the book toward me. Hundreds 
of nerves and muscles have been brought into 
play, and yet I do not know how it was accom- 
plished. I may have it explained to me how 
muscles respond to nervous stimulus, how they 
contract and expand in obedience to it, and I 
may see that the entire network of nerves and 
muscles throughout the body is controlled by 
thought; but that is not seeing how it is done. 

That, it seems, must remain a mystery. But 
for that reason do we deny it.^ Not at all. I 
know of no one who does not acknowledge that 
thought controls the body, that is, that his 
thought controls his own body. 



12 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

I may, therefore, take it for granted that you 
acknowledge so much, although I cannot expect 
you at this juncture to go so far as to acknowl- 
edge that the thought of another person can act 
upon your body or upon your mind. Of course 
we know that the audible speech or written word 
of another will affect your mind and, secondarily, 
your body, but that an unspoken thought should 
produce such an effect is beyond your credence. 

The law of Telepathy or Thought Transmission 
is now accepted by scientists the world over. 
Such men as Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes 
and Alfred Russell Wallace have tested this law 
and proved it to be a fact. 

Or, if you seek proof nearer home, you can 
find it in the following simple experiment. Get 
together a few of your friends. Blindfold one 
and place him in the middle of the room, after 
having shown him a key or some other object 
which you intend he shall find. Surround this 
person by the rest of your friends, standing in a 
closed circle with joined hands, while all of you 
think steadily of the key in the place where it is 
deposited. After some hesitation the blindfolded 
person, with slow and uncertain steps, will move 
toward the key and will ultimately find it. 

I will describe the sensation of the person 
blindfolded as I experienced it. First my mind 
felt utterly vacuous. All thought seemed to 
vanish. Then in a few seconds I felt pushed by 
unseen hands in a certain direction, although 
no hands were touching me. So strong was 
the inclination of my body in that direction that 



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I would have fallen had I not put out one foot 
to balance myself. Then another push and 
another step, and so I gradually approached a 
chair on which the key had been placed. When 
I reached the chair my whole body relaxed, 
and I drooped over it with arms listlessly hang- 
ing until one hand touched the key. On another 
occasion the key was hung upon the wall, and 
when I touched the wall I felt a desire to stretch 
upward with one arm. I did so and grasped the 
key where it hung upon a nail. 

Now, had the force of those minds been directed 
to my mind I might have had a definite idea 
of the position of the key. I would probably 
have thought — The key is on the chair, or. The 
key hangs on the wall, but I had no such definite 
thought, nothing but a vague blind movement 
for which I could not account. I was impelled 
to move, I knew not why. It therefore seemed 
that the thought of the minds concentrating 
upon me acted directly upon my body without 
passing through the medium of my mind. To me 
this was conclusive proof that the thought of one 
person can act directly upon the body of another 
person. 

There is a large hospital in France called La 
Salpetriere. It is one of the oldest and largest 
hospitals in the world, covering an area of seventy- 
four acres, and consisting of forty-five large 
blocks. In that hospital the patients are treated 
almost entirely by the power of Thought, but it 
is used as hypnotic suggestion. They do some 
strange things there which you would hardly 



14 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

credit, did not the reputation of the physicians 
in charge and the standing of the hospital back 
up the statements. 

Let me tell you what is done to those patients 
while in a state of hypnosis. A drop of cold 
water is placed on the flesh, and the patient is 
told that it is boiling oil. It then draws a blister. 
Now, how do you suppose this effect is pro- 
duced.^ Quite a mystery, is it not.^ But being 
done and testified to by reputable physicians in a 
reputable hospital you cannot very well doubt it. 

They also take a fly-blister and divide it into 
three equal parts, 1, 2, and 3. Number 1 they 
place upon a patient's right arm, number 2 upon 
the left arm, and number 3 upon the arm of a 
person who is not hypnotized. This done, the 
doctor says of number 1 that it will not draw 
a blister, and says nothing of numbers 2 and 3, 
The result is that number 1 does not draw a 
blister. They call that negative suggestion, which 
means that the blistering power is taken out of 
the number 1 piece of fly-blister, while it remains 
in the other two pieces, numbers 2 and 3. I 
say the blistering power is removed from number 
1, but perhaps it is more correct to say that the 
skin of the patient is made positive against it. 
The fly-blister becomes negative, therefore, to 
the skin of the patient, and produces no effect 
upon it, although it is a good, strong blister, as 
may be seen by the effects of numbers 2 and 3, 
of w^hich it was originally a part, the one fly- 
blister having been cut into three parts for the 
experiment. 



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This, then, is the power of Thought. It can 
turn a drop of cold water into a violent irritant, 
or a fly-blister into something as harmless as a 
bit of paper. 

When you realize that cold water when used 
with suggestion can draw a blister, can you 
doubt the power of Thought over the secretions 
of the body? Moreover, the drop of water is not 
actually necessary in the experiment, for Thought 
without material aid has caused a blister, in the 
tests just quoted, and Thought alone has pre- 
vented a blister. 

New Thought Healing is not Hypnotic Sug- 
gestion. I am only quoting the latter to prove 
the power of Thought. 

The late Professor William James of Harvard 
said that tumefaction can be produced by Thought 
in any part of the body. On the same principle, 
applied in the opposite manner, tumefaction 
can be removed by Thought. 

Dr. Elmer Gates of Washington proved to me 
conclusively that blood can be sent here and 
there through the body by simply turning the 
thought upon it and directing its current. This 
he showed me by actual experiment. Other men 
of science are giving out quite as remarkable 
statements, and their word must go for something. 
You accept a great deal on the evidence of chem- 
ists, astronomers and naturalists, and the evidence 
in favor of the power of Thought is just as 
convincing. No one who investigates thoroughly 
can doubt it. 

I think perhaps the greatest obstacle to our 



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believing that Thought can pass from one mind 
to another is that there seems to be no material 
agent of transmission, no vehicle for travel. 
But there is. It is a refined matter in the form 
of ether, and on this ether Thought travels. 
There are things we may not detect with our senses 
which nevertheless exist, and this ether is one of 
them. 

Who would have supposed, some years ago, 
that today we should be telegraphing without 
wires .^ A transmitter is set up in New York and 
a receiver in Boston, or any other two points, and 
the message goes straight from one to the other. 

Why then may not a message travel on the 
ether from healer to patient .^^ The healer is 
the transmitter and the patient the receiver, 
the message going straight and true from one to 
the other no matter how great the separation 
between the two. A telepathic message goes 
from here to England, Finland, Australia, South 
Africa, or wherever the receiver, in the form of 
a patient, is located. It takes weeks and months 
for letters to go to those distant points, but 
Thought goes in an instant, like an electric flash. 
We have an electrical Thought Power, and we 
live in an electrical age. Greater wonders still 
are to be revealed in the coming years. 

It is not the message sent from healer to patient 
that heals. It is not the thought of the healer 
that heals. What is it, then.^ It is the Spirit 
of God dwelling within the patient himself. 

And why does it not heal without the inter- 
vention of a healer.^ Sometimes it does, and again 



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it needs to be called into expression by the faith 
and reaKzation of another mind, such as the mind 
of the healer, — one that has superabounding 
faith in the power of spiritual healing. 

While the Spirit of God is all-powerful, it must 
flow through certain channels in order to do its 
work, and those channels are mental processes. 
For that reason we formerly used the term "Men- 
tal Healing," but have discarded it, as it does not 
suggest the spiritual principle at work. Mental 
processes are dead and automatic unless infused 
by the life of the Spirit, as I shall show you in 
the next chapter. 

Spirit is formless, but it takes upon itself form 
when it creates a tree, a flower, a planet, a man 
or an insect, yes, or a thought, for thoughts have 
form, although invisible to the physical eye, as 
are myriads of other forms in the universe, being 
of flner matter than the retina of the eye can 
register. 

Thought-Forms are ensouled with life and in- 
telligence and they perform a wonderful work in 
healing disease and unhappiness. When I said 
that the thought of the healer does not heal the 
patient, I should have added that it has an in- 
fluence for good upon the patient in that it calls 
forth its correspondence in the mind of the patient, 
as, for instance, thoughts of courage and hope 
call into being thoughts of courage and hope in 
the patient, and these thoughts are conducive 
to health and happiness. Thoughts of faith 
going from healer to patient arouse faith in the 
patient, and that is instrumental in healing, so 



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in that way the healer is an agent in the cure, 
but what I wish to impress upon your mind is 
the fact that you are as close to the Di\ane Heal- 
ing Power as the healer, and that when you learn 
to open the channels of your thought to its in- 
flux, it flows straight from God through you. 
The true healer is, therefore, a teacher, both 
consciously and subconsciously, teaching con- 
sciously by means of lessons and subconsciously 
by means of thought transmission, by the send- 
ing out of thoughts of Truth and Love. 

Suggestion is not hypnotic control of necessity, 
but is merely thought transmission. The Medical 
Summary of Philadelphia says editorially: ''Sug- 
gestion is the moving power in the treatment of 
disease. Experienced practitioners habitually em- 
ploy it to advantage of the patient. Prudent 
friends and callers at the bedside practise sug- 
gestion by taking with them the assurance of 
better things to come. A word of cheer, the 
reassuring smile, inspire hope — this, too, is sug- 
gestion. Rheumatic rings, magnetic healing and 
divine healing all have their tap-root in suggestion. 
If, with ability to diagnose disease, and without 
the aid from coal-tar sedatives and opiates, the 
physician can relieve such maladies as headache, 
lumbago, sciatica or the anguish of rheumatic 
joint, duty imposes the obligation to do so." 

This shows the trend of the more advanced and 
liberal in the medical fraternity. They, with 
us, are coming into a "Clear Vision of the World" 
which involves the seeing of finer curatives 
than we find in drugs. 



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You see the world keeps moving on, and no con- 
servatism can stop it. One system gives place 
to another. Different schools of medicine have 
put in their claims, had their day, and vanished 
to give place to more effective ones. 

New Thought Healing is here now and is y;^ 
having its day. If it proves to be what the 
world is seeking, it will keep its hold. If not, 
it will give place to something better. That, 
however, does not concern us, for, while we have 
a power for relieving the sickness and sorrow of 
humanity, it is best to use it to the uttermost 
instead of vaguely seeking what may possibly 
follow. When it is on the wane will be time 
enough to look for something better. It is not 
now waning but steadily rising toward the 
Zenith. 

Before passing on to the next chapter think 
over what I have said about the power of Thought, 
and the proofs of its transmission from mind to 
mind. These two points admitted, you will not 
be long in conceding to Thought the function of 
either creating or healing disease, and later you 
will see how it is that New Thought heals 
disease. 

New Thought heals because it, in its clear vision 
of the world, sees the Universe to be governed by 
Love and Intelligence, and therefore knows that 
nothing can go really wrong in these lives of ours. 
It sees in sickness, unhappiness and adversity 
angels in the night to be wrestled with until 
the dawn, when they will depart, leaving a bless- 
ing with the wrestler. 



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New Thought shows us that our power is 
WITHIN, that we are the temples in which the 
Holy Spirit dwells. It teaches us that God is 
not apart from us, sitting on high, and an aveng- 
ing Deity, holding us under a curse and frown- 
ing upon our joys. We have said in the past that 
God is Love, but we have not had a clear vision 
of that Love, else we could not attribute to it 
cruelties that a loving human father could not 
inflict upon his children. 

No mind can be at peace and no body can be 
healthy when dominated by a God of Love who 
is practically a God of Hate. As well might a 
growing plant strive to reach the light and air 
when held down by a huge block of granite. 
The block must be lifted or blown to fragments 
before the struggle for life and growth will count 
for anything with the plant. 

New Thought is lifting this crushing weight 
from the human soul, hence its great beneficence 
and its healing power. No man can be really 
healthy who is oppressed by fear, or who thinks 
himself a weakling in a world of antagonistic 
Giant Forces. He must know himself to be the 
Giant, and the Conqueror, because of the God 

WITHIN. 

New Thought teaches that since God is omni- 
present He must be within Man, in continual 
touch with his soul, in fact one with it; one in 
spiritual substance, even as the ray of light is 
one with the sun, so that it has been truly said, 
''Closer is He than breathing, nearer than hands 
and feet." 



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Outside and inside, everywhere God and a God 
of Love, like the vision of the poet — 

"Oh! the Httle birds sang East, and the little birds sang 
West, 
And I smiled to think God's greatness 
Flowed around our incompleteness — 
Round our restlessness, His rest!" 




CHAPTER TWO 

THOUGHT IS A FORCE 

THE Force or Energy that upholds, sustains 
and moves the Universe is silent and 
hidden. We only know of it through its expres- 
sions, which are many, and Thought is one of 
the finest and most powerful of these expressions, 
but Thought itself, although an expression of 
World Energy, is not sufficiently expressed (ex- 
pressed or out-pressed) to become visible to the 
natural eye. It has form, but that form is 
invisible. It is unseen and unheard until it has 
ex-pressed or out-pressed itself in writing, print- 
ing or speech. 

The fact before us is this — Thought is a Force, 
even when it has not found expression in written 
or spoken word, and Thought is an outflow from 
God or the Infinite and Eternal Energy. Thought 
is the essence of all things, that is, every living 
thing is an embodied thought, a Thought-Form 
clothed in matter. It may be said that Thought- 
Forms clothe themselves in matter. 

Shall we then think lightly of Thought? Shall 
it be vaporous and unreal to us.^ Not if we have 
clear vision of the world, for we shall then see 
Thought as something more real than those 



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material things we know as houses, clothes, food 
and drink. We who desire to work in Thought 
Substance must know something of its nature 
and possibilities, as the artist must know some- 
thing about the mixing of colors and laying them 
upon the canvas. 

If you wish to run a locomotive you must ac- 
quaint yourself with all its parts and learn their 
relation to each other. You must practise run- 
ning your engine until you are expert in its manage- 
ment, before you are prepared to take out a 
train without accident. 

On the contrary we have attempted to run a 
human engine of which we knew little or nothing, 
and naturally we have had our mishaps which we 
called diseases, and our engines have been in the 
repair shop far too much of the time. If the 
Master Engineer, the Universal Mind, had not 
occasionally given us a command or word of 
advice, there might not have been anything left 
of our engines to take to the repair shop. 

The human engine is more complicated and 
diflScult to understand than its iron brother, 
but it is possible to learn all about it and to 
keep it under perfect control. It takes time and 
study and perseverance, of course, but it is time 
and study and perseverance well spent. In fact 
it could not be better spent. 

Is there any study that can compare with it? 
I should say not. Indeed it may well be made 
the first of all studies, for without health, peace 
of mind, and the ability to master circumstances, 
what can we accomplish in any direction.^ Our 



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unevolved powers are greater than we can imagine, 
and to evolve those powers the acme of the 
New Thought ideal. 

We are like the man who desires to run an 
engine and seeks to gain the requisite knowledge 
for his work. He must experiment, and so 
must we. He must find the motive power and 
learn to use it and so must we. He must be able 
to increase that motive power and so must we. 

But here the analogy ends, for while the power 
of an engine has a limit, the human engine has 
no limit. 

We are veritable giants when our powers are 
brought to the surface. They lie within us like 
seed germs awaiting the touch of life, as in the 
tiny acorn lies concealed the mighty oak. 

I once saw a slender, delicate little fellow, who 
had been without food for a week, perform a 
feat that would have tested a Samson. He had 
been thrown into a hypnotic sleep in a public 
hall and kept under the strictest surveillance 
during the seven days of his fast. At the end 
of the week he was placed in a chair and held 
down in it by six strong policemen. Then the 
man who held him in hypnotic control gave a 
signal and the little, frail creature sprang up and 
threw off those powerful men as though they had 
been insects. Where did his strength come from.^ 
It was certainly not resident in his flabby muscles. 

I have seen many exhibitions of this kind, 
but the one just quoted occurred in a small town 
and reputable citizens, among them several 
physicians, testified to its genuineness, while the 






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policemen who figured in the test were the regular 
oflBcers of the town, so there was little or no chance 
for fraud. 

When I was a member of the Society for Psy- 
chical Research in Boston I saw two hypnotized 
subjects impersonate Bill Nye and a political 
orator. Dr. Pfeiffer was the hypnotic operator 
and he simply suggested to the one that he was 
Bill Nye and to the other that he was on the 
stump in the interests of his candidate. The 
speeches began and continued simultaneously, 
and it was difficult for us to follow each speaker, 
but we heard enough to know that the pseudo 
Bill Nye was irresistibly droll and very original, 
his witty eloquence flowing in a steady stream to 
the end of his long address. The stump speaker 
was just as good in his role, and it seemed remark- 
able to me that each should excel in his own 
adopted style of oratory. Both men in their 
natural state of mind were very ordinary, hardly 
up to the mediocre in their degree of intelligence, 
and yet when under hypnotic control each ex- 
celled in his line, each differing diametrically 
from the other. 

The operator could not have given more than 
a mere suggestion to each, for to have given to one 
speaker his discourse word for word, he must have 
been an unusually fine orator, while to have given 
the two addresses simultaneously would have 
been a feat to be undertaken only by an East 
Indian adept. 

What, then, was the inference.^ Each speaker 
must have tapped for himself the source of his 



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inspiration. In some inscrutable manner the 
suggestion to the one that he was Bill Nye must 
have brought him in contact with Bill Nye's 
current of thought; he must have tapped it, as 
it were, while the stump speaker must have tapped 
the current of stump oratory. 

These instances and many others that have 
come under my observation have led me to think 
that under certain conditions we come in touch 
with other minds, and also with a great reservoir 
of Life and Mind containing all that we desire 
to express of strength, vitality, health, harmony, 
opulence and beauty, of even more that we can- 
not now imagine. We have but to open the 
channel and it will flow through us. 

I would not advise the channel opened by 
Hypnotism, for that calls for an injurious negative 
etate, and brings many evils in its train. I quote 
Hypnotism for the purpose of illustration, but 
do not indorse its use. 

To return to the simile of the engine. We see 
it on the track, a motionless, lifeless thing, await- 
ing the touch of the engineer's governing hand. 
He opens the throttle and away she springs, 
a creature of life and power. Is it a miracle? 
No, an everyday occurrence, and yet a matter of 
law, a matter of adjustment, a matter of scientific 
certainty. 

Power and life are let loose in us in very much 
the same way, as a matter of law, of adjustment, 
of scientific certainty. Complicated the human 
machinery surely is, but it is not impossible to 
understand and control it with a master's hand. 



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The engineer uses steam or electricity to run 
his engine. The human engine is run by Thought, 
the amount of energy put into it being regulated 
by the character of the Thought. There is a 
current of Thought generated in Illusion that is 
weak and inefficient. There is another, based 
on Truth, that is strong and all-sufficient. As 
a man thinketh, so is he. If he thinks himself 
strong he becomes so, as did the hypnotized 
subject who threw off the six strong policemen. 
Although physically weak he had been made to 
think himself strong; strength was suggested to 
him by the hypnotizer, and he became as a giant. 
The suggestion opened the way to the Universal 
Energy, which flowed through him and made him 
strong in spite of his feeble body. 

And the truth is — Strength is not in muscle 
and nerve but in the spiritual force that infills 
them, else how is it that flabby muscle can per- 
form the work of a Hercules.^ Also, how was it 
that Jeffries lost the fight with Johnson? His 
trainer said he was physically fit, but he began 
to doubt his power several days before the fight 
and so he lost it, because, although really a giant, 
he was bound in mental chains of weakness. 
Again, As a man thinketh, so is he. 

You may think it is demeaning to spiritual 
force to assert that it gives strength to the prize- 
fighter. But why not.f^ God is no respecter 
of persons. He gives of His Power to all who 
know how to get it. He sendeth rain on the 
just and on the unjust. God gives energy but 
does not stipulate how it shall be used, because 



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Man's will is free. He can use or abuse Power 
as he sees fit, but of course he has to bear the 
penalty if he misuses Power. That is a part of 
his education in the mysteries of life and the laws 
of his being. 

But to return to the subject — Thought is a 
Force, and whatever you think of yourself, that 
do you become, for Thought is not only a Force, 
but a Creative Force. If you think persistently 
that you have a disease you contract it; and on 
the contrary, if you have contracted the disease 
and can be made to think strongly enough that 
you are in perfect health, you rid yourself of the 
disease. Two subjects in hypnotic sleep, one 
with a cough and the other without, can be so 
treated by suggestion that when they awake 
from the sleep, the one who had the cough is 
free from it, while the other subject has con- 
tracted it. This is a singular fact but full of 
meaning, showing you how illusory are the 
diseases of the body and why New Thought can 
heal them. 

You may have some internal trouble and you 
may think it is a cancer. If you think so per- 
sistently it will turn out to be a cancer, no matter 
what it was originally. Or, on the other hand, 
you may actually have a cancer, but if you can 
be made to think strongly enough that you have 
not one the cancer will disappear, on the same 
principle that the fly-blister, when subjected to 
negative suggestion, loses its power to affect the 
skin. 

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a cancer when you know by every indication that 
you have one? Ah, but have you? That is 
the point. It depends upon what you regard as 
you. If you are your physical body, why then 
you have the cancer. I shall not dispute that 
evident fact. What I do deny is that you are 
your physical body, and instead I declare that 
you are a birthless, deathless, spiritual i^dentity, 
having the power to put on and throw off your 
physical envelope. In the course of your evo- 
lution you have had many of these physical 
envelopes, vegetable, animal, and, perhaps, human. 
One after another you have cast them off, like 
the chambered nautilus, leaving your outgrown 
shell by life's unresting sea. Your present shell 
is constantly changing, and if it has a cancer 
now, it need not have one if you gain sufficient 
control over your body to cast it out. 

When I say — If you gain sufficient control 
over your body — I suggest that you are some- 
thing above and superior to your body. Else 
how can you control it? As long as you 
think of yourself as your body, or your body 
as yourself, you cannot establish any claim of 
superiority or command over any of its states 
or activities. 

When you deny that you have a cancer you are 
speaking of the real self that is you, the self that 
is in the image of God or the externalization of 
God; for an image is an externalization of a thing. 
This real self has no cancer nor any other defect 
or disease. As you realize this your thought 
becomes exalted, becomes positive in character, 



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and easily controls the body. Thought, when 
exalted, increases in force, because it holds more 
of the Divine Energy. It can then heal your 
body. 

And what is true of healing disease of a physical 
nature is also true of healing disease of the mind. 
All worry, fear, apprehension, grief, weariness, 
mental trouble of any sort, is a disease of the 
mind, and subject to the control of divinely 
energized Thought. 

I can feel within myself how it is true that the 
real self is not touched or deeply hurt by sorrow, 
trouble or adversity. As Emerson says: ''What 
opium is instilled into all disaster — the only 
thing grief has taught me, is to know how shallow 
it is." 

While I was thinking how best to explain this 
great truth to other minds I was led by the 
Spirit to read an article by M. E. Carter in The 
Humanitarian, a part of which read as follows: 

''Some years ago, while at Greenacre, I saw a 
picture that impressed me deeply. It was painted 
by an idealist, a girl only nineteen years of age. 
The picture represented a beautiful head, the 
face being perfect in outline and color; but the 
large, dark eyes seemed to be looking far away, 
seeking with a hungry, unsatisfied expression 
something apparently unattainable. The face 
was inexpressibly sad with its beauty and earnest- 
ness. Close beside this head, with a cheek 
almost pressed against it, was another head — 
the face perfect in serenity and a study in its 
calmness and peace. Both were beautiful; but 



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one left on the beholder a sense of hunger and 
anxiety, while in the other there was nothing to 
desire. The picture interpreted itself as one 
looked upon it. There in graphic outline was 
the oft-repeated story of the human being not 
yet awake to its Divine Self — hungry, anxious, 
sad, yearning for it knows not what; and all the 
time the Divine Self, the Real Self, the True 
Being, close at hand, waiting for recognition. 
It is this True Self of each one of us with whom, 
sooner or later, we must get acquainted, and whose 
presence we must learn to realize every moment 
of our lives thereafter.'' 

It will help you greatly to see in mind the two 
selves so well portrayed. One restless, sad, 
unsatisfied, hungry, anxious and longing for it 
knows not what; the other perfect in its seren- 
ity, and a study in calmness and peace. And 
remember the other Self, the True Self, is very 
very close to you, fairly touching you. 

Seek this Real Self and you will find it. Then 
will your troubles melt in air and your diseases 
fall away from you like the old plumage of a 
bird in moulting time. You accomplish this 
with that Force called Thought, which is Spiritual 
Energy expressing itself in terms of Mind. As 
Emerson said: ''When the spiritual Energy is 
directed outward, then is it a thought. 

There you have the subject of this chapter on 
the authority of a poet, philosopher and idealist 
who stands high in the teachings of the New 
Thought. 

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glorious as an angel, as radiant as the sun. Some 
one has called it the Shining One, a beautiful 
and fitting name. 

In your hours of exaltation, when you feel 
yourself moved to great and wonderful achieve- 
ment, and no height seems too high to scale, it 
is the Shining One irradiating your being. It 
is then actually speaking through you, and 
stirring you to endeavor. But the hour passes 
and you fall again into your negative, everyday 
self. Darkness and limitation shut you in while 
the Shining One withdraws behind the environ- 
ing clouds. 

But, you know, the natural sun is often obscured 
by clouds, yet it will come forth again, and while 
obscured it is still shining, though its rays do not 
reach you. Take courage, for your Shining One 
is near you, though hidden, and it will surely 
illumine your life again. 

There is a state of consciousness that corre- 
sponds to the earth in shadow, and that is your 
present state, except for your occasional glimpses 
of the Shining One. In course of time the illumi- 
nation will become permanent. Then you and the 
Shining One will have made your at-one-ment. 

Your evolution consists in learning and apply- 
ing the laws of Thought that shall clear your 
mind of clouds and darkness, due to the false 
beliefs descending to you from your ancestors 
and their primitive animal beginnings in the far- 
away past. 

I do not wonder that the Apostle said, "For 
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face to face." He thus prophesied the clear 
vision of the world that shall see things as they 
are, or face to face. 

Thought is the Force that shall heal you of 
mental and physical disease and bring you health 
and peace. 



CHAPTER THREE 

TEE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND 

VARIOUS writers use the term ''Subconscious'' 
in different ways. With some it describes 
what I should call instead the Superconscious, 
or what Emerson called the Over-Soul. 

That is not what I mean by the Subconscious, 
for I use it to denote a product or result of the 
Conscious. Taken in a large and general sense, 
the Subconscious might be made to stand for all 
that is not Conscious, but I consider that it makes 
the study of Mind and its processes more under- 
standable if we divide it and its functions into 
Superconscious, Conscious and Subconscious, the 
Superconscious standing for that vast storehouse 
from which we draw our thoughts, and of which 
we know very little, the Conscious standing for 
what we perceive to be the form of mental activity 
which we recognize as the human mind, and the 
Subconscious, standing for automatic mental 
processes or habits, initiated, in the first instance, 
by the Conscious Mind. 

It is of the Subconscious Mind that I will speak 
in this chapter. To begin with, let us consider 
its office in controlling the involuntary action of 
the body, such as the beating of the heart, the 
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in fact not immediately set in motion by the will. 
The act of walking is largely subconscious, but 
the direction in which one walks is generally 
dependent on the will, although it often happens 
that when one goes in the same direction daily 
the feet will turn certain corners while the Con- 
scious Mind is occupied with other subjects of 
thought. 

The Subconscious Mind is a bundle of habits, 
and its habits are of long duration. The Sub- 
conscious contracts habits of disease; that is, 
a part of it gets to running irregularly, and keeps 
on so moving to the disturbance of the general 
physical harmony, until something happens to 
set it right, or all the other parts adjust themselves 
to the erratic action, compromising, as it were, 
for the sake of temporary peace. 

It is well known that the different parts of 
the body will change position to make room for 
an organ that is out of place, and though they 
could perform their work much better in their 
own proper places, still, after a little grumbling 
(pain), they settle down to business in their new 
quarters, and get on quite amicably, though 
there is always an element of discontent. They 
do not break out in open riot, but make the 
owner of the body in which they are ensconced 
feel somewhat uncomfortable. He knows that 
something is wrong with the servants in his house, 
but does not discover what it is. 

We have discerned the fact that the physical 
economy is regulated by intelligence, but have 
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dwells within the organism itself. That it does 
is one of the strongest points in our healing 
philosophy. 

Long ago, in the early beginnings of life on this 
planet, that little protoplasmic form, the amoeba, 
had a natural desire for food. Impelled by 
this desire, it floated here and there, until it came 
in contact with the object of its desire, when 
it folded itself about that object, absorbed from 
it what it could assimilate, and released the 
balance. As time went on its desire grew stronger 
and its need for more varied food greater, so that 
instead of letting its prey go quickly it held on 
to it longer, so as to extract from it more sus- 
tenance. This resulted finally in a settled, per- 
manent contraction which converted the flat 
surface of the amoeba into a tube-like formation, 
the first nucleus of a stomach. 

But this stomach could not digest all that it 
had captured and held, for now it did not give 
up its prey, and how to get rid of the unused 
unavailable matter was the question in the 
amoebic mind. It did not think out the matter 
as we would do, but set to work to form ducts 
or channels that served as primitive bowels and 
kidneys. Later to supply its growing needs 
it formed the eyes, heart, lungs and other organs. 

Note that these organs owe their origin and 
growth to conscious action on the part of the 
creature projecting them. No matter how low 
the form of life, if it has any knowledge of exter- 
nal objects that knowledge may be termed con- 
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know, the word "conscious" coming from the 
Latin ''conscius," from "con" and "scire," 
to know. The amoeba was conscious because 
it knew of the presence of its prey, and it knew 
enough to grasp that prey. It also had will, 
for it willed to grasp its prey. 

But, as its desires grew apace, it dropped the 
conscious control of the first established activi- 
ties, because it could do so by virtue of mechanical 
law which converts conscious activity into a 
habit, that becomes automatic, and practically 
conducts itself without conscious direction or 
supervision. If you set a ball rolling it is 
carried forward by the momentum given by 
your hand, which is the agent of your conscious 
volition, and the ball rolls on until the force 
transmitted to it is spent. By the same law the 
mechanical action set up at first in the body 
by conscious volition continues until the force 
imparted to it is exhausted. 

In this way our bodies are running on the motive 
power given to them by conscious volition in the 
long ago. As we pass from childhood to old age 
we get farther and farther away from the original 
impelling force and we finally run down, as in 
death, just as a clock would that needed winding. 

But, just so surely as the clock can renew its 
action when a new impulse is given it, just so 
surely can the human body do the same, and in so 
doing conquer old age and death. 

In winding the clock that its action may be 
renewed you are dealing with a merely mechanical 
object. In renewing the bodily mechanism you 



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are dealing with living tissues, animated by 
mind and spirit; therefore, in the latter instance, 
your tools must be of mind substance because 
you cannot regulate a thing of mind with a 
steel tool. You cannot adjust mind substance 
with a screw driver and hammer. The body 
is really mind substance, you know, solidified 
into material atoms and molecules. 

Schopenhauer reduced this world to two factors 
— Will and Idea. Will stands for the Eternal 
Energy and Idea for the form it assumes. 

I believe this to be true, and as the individual 
is the Microcosm, or epitome, or microscopic 
edition of the Macrocosm or Universe, I consider 
that the motive power of the individual is made 
up of Will and Idea. Thought is the form that 
Will resolves itself into; therefore Thought is 
a Force, and it is the Force with which we adjust 
and regulate the living tissues of the body. 

If you mentally tell a sick person that he is 
well, no matter how sick he may apparently be, 
the affirmation falls into his Subconscious Mind, 
which takes the suggestion and acts upon it, for 
the Subconscious Mind is sensitive, vibrating 
mind substance and when it is touched by a 
living word it moves in accordance with that 
word. 

Living words are words of health, words of 
success, words of good cheer, and the Subconscious 
Mind responds to them by setting up better cir- 
culation, steadier heart-beats, better muscular 
and nerve action, better sight, better hearing and 
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On the other hand, dead words, such as — I 
am sick, miserable, poor, unfortunate and hope- 
less — all have a disastrous effect upon the Sub- 
conscious Mind, lowering the tone of the whole 
system and producing the exact opposite of the 
effect of the live words. 

Not once only in the history of the world was 
the Word made Flesh, but every day, every hour 
and every moment is it occurring. The Word is 
continually made Flesh, and happy he who chooses 
the living Word for his utterance. 

If you are told that you are well when you are 
as sick as you can possibly be and live, it will 
seem to you like a baseless and false assertion, but 
it is not, and why.^ 

It is not baseless and false for the reason that 
your sickness refers to a passing physical state 
which does not belong to the real you. If I see 
you in a rage at a certain time, and yet know you 
to be really a person of equable and sweet temper, 
shall I pronounce you a savage brute .^ That 
is what you seem to be at the moment of obser- 
vation, but I take into consideration that this 
passing brain storm does not represent you as 
I know you to be. 

Your bodily sickness is just as much a passing 
mood of the body, so the New Thought healer 
takes a firm stand and asserts that you are in 
reality perfectly well, sound and whole. This is 
true of the spiritual substance which is really you. 

This spiritual you is a Creator. It is an 
Emanation from the God-Centre of all Being and 
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Its words are living words and are externalized 
in beautiful, healthy, bodily substance. 

Try the effect upon the Subconscious Mind 
of vigorous, positive, living words. When you 
are weak affirm that you are strong. Remember 
the hypnotized subject, who, through suggestion, 
acquired such tremendous power, though his 
muscles were flabby and his body puny. The 
only difference between hypnotic suggestion and 
auto-suggestion is that in the former the con- 
scious mind of the subject is made quiescent, and 
is thus unable to foist its doubts on the Sub- 
conscious Mind, so that the latter, not being 
handicapped by doubt, can accept the suggestion 
and act upon it without hindrance. In auto- 
suggestion you will have doubt to contend with, 
so it will take longer to get results, but if you 
persist, you will finally cast out doubt and thus 
obtain a clear channel for Infinite Power to flow 
through you from centre to circumference. 

Even though you are overwhelmed by poverty, 
sickness and sorrow, affirm the opposite. Say 
with all the earnestness you can muster: I am 
rich, I am well, I am happy. Say it again and 
again, day after day, though all things conspire 
to give the lie to your words. If you do this 
faithfully you will at last enable the Subconscious 
Mind to make your words come true. 

If you throw bicarbonate of soda into an acid, 
you correct its acidity. By a law certain and 
unvarying you can sweeten by affirmation the 
sourest states of body and environment. 

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what auto-suggestion has done for me, I entreat 
you to see what it will do for you. It calls for 
persistent effort, but that effort in itself and aside 
from results is beneficial. You have nothing 
to lose in the attempt. You risk nothing and 
you have so much, so very much to gain. 

We are too apt to think of the Conscious Mind 
as the whole of Mind, not understanding that there 
are mental activities of which we are not aware, 
but the reasoning, philosophical person accepts 
on good proof much more in the world than the 
small part of it that comes under his immediate 
observation. He believes in suns, stars, planets 
and worlds that are beyond his cognizance. We 
have equally good proof of the existence of Mind 
that is beyond our cognizance. There certainly 
are mental activities that are carried on without 
direct volition from the Conscious Mind, and 
without our knowledge. 

When you were a little child, just learning to 
walk, you had to balance yourself very carefully 
on one foot while you lifted the other and took 
a step forward, often losing your balance and 
falling. After many trials you managed to keep 
your balance and were then able to walk; but 
even then you could not run and leap. Those 
were later efforts. The first attempt to walk 
led gradually to the later accomplishment. In 
the meantime the first effort at balance had 
become a habit, a something automatic that did 
not call for constant care and attention. 

Now you can walk and think about something 
else all the time. If every day you go to your 



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place of business or to some other destination 
by the same route, after a while you will not need 
to think about your course, for you will turn 
corners unconsciously, and finally arrive at your 
office or other point, hardly knowing how you 
reached it. Your walking as mere muscular 
activity was subconscious, and that which sent 
your steps in one direction was also subconscious. 

Life is made up of these subconscious activities. 
Without them achievement of a high order would 
be impossible. At first you learned your letters 
with difficulty, then words of one syllable, then 
longer words. Then you learned the various 
parts of speech — nouns, verbs, adverbs, ad- 
jectives, pronouns, etc. For a long time reading 
was a matter of slowly spelling out words, but 
today you grasp whole sentences at a glance. 
You spell words no longer. All that work is 
done subconsciously, and with lightning rapidity. 

The late Professor James of Harvard, in his 
"'Psychology," stated that art would be impos- 
sible were it not for subconscious processes. 
You can see that this is so, for if the mind had 
always to busy itself with every detail in art 
which at first it apprehends with care and pre- 
cision, there would never be free bold strokes of 
the brush. All would be cramped and labored 
like the writing of a child. The free sweep 
comes from the care given to the earlier detail 
which falls as a habit into the Subconscious Mind, 
and is thereafter executed by it. 

In my early study of the piano I was an im- 
patient pupil. I could not understand why I 



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was kept on scale and arpeggio, when I thought 
I could learn to execute them just as well by 
taking them as they occurred in a piece of music. 
My music master knew better, and he said, 
"You must make your technique a habit, so that 
you can execute runs, etc., unconsciously, for 
later you will have other things to consider and 
cannot give your thought at the same time to 
technique in detail." Some time afterward I 
saw this to be true, but could not understand it 
at the moment. 

The same rule applies to the study of bettering 
our physical and mental states. We must hold 
certain thoughts in the Conscious Mind day after 
day, possibly month after month, and in some 
cases even year after year, until they become an 
essential part of us, until they fall into the Sub- 
conscious Mind and set up there an activity. 

If you wish to be healthy and carry about with 
you the magnetic aura of sweetness, goodness and 
power — in other words, if you wish to be a radiant 
success in life, shining with the joy of accomplish- 
ment — you must hold in mind the thoughts that 
make such attainment possible, and you must 
go on holding them until they bring results. 
A fleeting thought will have little or no effect in 
bringing you the ideal states that you are seeking, 
but a thought held day after day becomes a 
tremendous Force in your life. If the thought 
be true and noble the Subconscious Mind moves 
to the measure of truth and nobility. If the 
thought be crafty and mean, the Subconscious 
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its processes in the glance of your eye, the turn 
of your head, the tone of your voice, the move- 
ment of your hand, and in many another form of 
your expression. Your inner self, which you 
fancy is hidden from observation, is thus con- 
stantly revealing itself to others and attracting 
or repelling their conj&dence and affection as the 
case may be, and the confidence and affection 
of the world around you are two strong factors 
in winning success. If you are not liked and your 
life is not a success, look to your inner life and see 
what is wrong with it. The trouble lies doubtless 
within yourself instead of in the world outside. 

The Subconscious Mind is also creating your 
physical conditions to the measure of your thought. 
It does this so silently, so secretly, that you 
have no idea of its work in affecting the con- 
ditions of your body. 

You will understand better how you can be 
unconscious of the activity of the Subconscious, 
when you notice that you can pursue a long 
train of thought, and be so absorbed in it that 
you are not conscious of yourself as thinking, 
and will not be until you ''come to yourself" 
at the end of your train of thought. Your mind 
has been working intensely all the while, but you 
were not conscious of it. 

It is certain that the Subconscious Mind pur- 
sues a very active course without our cognizance. 
It is also far-reaching and extends beyond the 
bounds of our immediate surroundings. It reaches 
out and works for our good or ill, according to 
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Our best thoughts and purposes come from the 
Superconscious Mind into the Conscious, and 
thence proceed into the Subconscious in the 
form of Habits of Thought. They pass from the 
immense, illimitable tract of the Superconscious 
into the comparatively small channel of the 
Conscious, thence to pass on to that other im- 
mense, illimitable tract of the Subconscious, where 
they become living factors for our weal or woe. 



CHAPTER FOUR 

THE SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND 

THERE is a vast storehouse from which we 
draw our thoughts. It is great and won- 
derful beyond our imagination, and it is open to 
every one of us. This storehouse was called 
by Emerson "'The Over-Soul," and perhaps no 
better name could be given it, but for the purpose 
of distinguishing it from the Conscious and 
Subconscious, I shall call it the Superconscious 
Mind. 

No one knows exactly what the Superconscious 
Mind is; for that matter we know very little 
of the Conscious and Subconscious Mind; but 
we are learning more through observation and 
experience, and I believe we are close to a greater 
knowledge of the Superconscious Mind. We 
believe it to be the home of the potential or the 
unexpressed instead of the actual (act-ual), or 
expressed. 

What the Unexpressed is I shall not attempt to 
define, because I cannot. If I could define it, it 
would cease to be the Unexpressed and become 
the Expressed. 

All we need to know is this — Is there a Super- 
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to it? If it be a storehouse, and we can draw 
from it, what can we draw and how can we 
draw it? 

A thought comes into my mind. Where does 
it come from? Some other mind? Yes, pos- 
sibly. But where did it come from in the very 
beginning? How did it get into that other mind 
from whence it comes to mine? A coin may 
pass from hand to hand in the course of its cir- 
culation, but originally it came from the mint. 
Still farther back it came from a mine, and 
earlier still it may have been in the form of 
ether, so in the first place it was not a coin in 
circulation. It is passed to me by another hand, 
but that hand did not make it. It simply passed 
it on. Our thoughts are transmitted from one 
to another, but that does not account for their 
origin. Where do they come from in the be- 
ginning? 

They come from the Superconscious Mind. 
What they are like before they are born into the 
Conscious Mind we know not, and it matters not. 
What does matter is that we get the thoughts and 
that they are the right thoughts to work out our 
health and happiness. 

We want something that shall move the machin- 
ery of mind and body, making it speed on merrily, 
singing as it does, instead of creaking, groaning 
and finally stopping entirely. Can we get it? 
Yes. 

We have reached a place in intelligence where 
we know what we want from the storehouse, 
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lyzes our effort and we do not try to get what we 
want. Moreover, we would not know how to 
get it if we had courage to make the attempt. 

When we want anything in the material world 
we reach out the hand for it. This we cannot 
do in the mental world. There we reach out 
with the mental hand of our desire. Knock 
and it shall be opened unto you. Desire is the 
hand that knocks at the door of the Supercon- 
scious, and the door is opened. 

Thought comes into the mind, but it seems to 
come in hit-or-miss fashion. It, however, does 
nothing of the kind. It is regulated in its coming 
by law. Every thought that comes to us is 
drawn as unerringly as one chemical atom is 
drawn to another. It is drawn by the nature of 
our desire and by its kinship to the other thoughts 
present in the mind. 

If our thought is concerned with Art, then we 
draw what relates to Art. If it is concerned with 
Music, then we draw what relates to Music, 
and so on. Whatever we elect to do and let our 
thought dwell upon, to that do we draw fresh 
stores from the Superconscious, and so do we 
grow in our endeavor, whatever it may be. 

The old thought of the world was that each 
person had a certain amount of talent or genius 
conferred upon him, and beyond that limit he 
could not go. The New Thought teaches that 
there is no such grudging limit placed upon 
Man; that he stands at the door of Infinite 
Supply. 

If you desire intensely to do anything in the 



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way of high achievement, know that you can do 
it, no matter what your drawbacks or your age. 
I know a modiste who turns out the most ex- 
quisite creations in gowns and both hands are de- 
formed so that she cannot wear a thimble, the 
first and second fingers on both hands having 
but one joint. Her deformity has Kfted her from 
an ordinary seamstress to the plane of Art, where 
she works out beautiful designs which subordi- 
nates carry into execution. 

I know also a woman who, at the age of fifty, 
began the study of painting and at the age of 
sixty became a very fine artist, so you see, 
obstacles such as deformity and age vanish 
before the determined effort to realize one's 
desires. 

If your desire is to heal the sick, it shows that 
hidden within you is the power to do it. Open 
your mind to the Superconscious, letting the 
thought that is related to your desire flow into 
your mind, and you will develop the power to 
heal. 

We are at all times open to the Superconscious, 
but we can increase our receptivity by desiring 
to be receptive. We can also exclude from our 
minds all that is extraneous or foreign to our 
purpose, as one would remove the weeds from a 
flower-bed. 

The Healing Thought comes down from the 
Superconscious, hence the beautiful words of 
Carpenter: "Lo, the healing power descending 
from within, calming the enfevered brain and 
spreading peace among the grieving nerves." 



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If you are suffering pain, either of mind or body, 
repeat these lines, and desire intensely that the 
healing power shall descend. Then wait and 
fully expect that it will. When it comes it will 
feel like a fine, cooling shower falling gently upon 
your heated brain, while little rivulets of peace 
course along the suffering nerves and still their 
grieving. 

I know this to be so from actual and repeated 
experience. You have only to prove it for your- 
self. 

The Superconscious is the realm of the Divine. 
How then does it happen that thoughts of worry, 
of hatred, of dishonesty and even of murder 
come to us from that source, if it indeed is the 
source of all thought.^ 

They do not. When a bright new coin comes 
from the mint, it is quite different from the same 
coin after being long in circulation and becoming 
worn and tarnished. 

But the analogy is imperfect and I will not 
follow it farther. No material illustration can 
convey to you what it means to open the mind 
to the influx of the Superconscious. It means 
freshness, richness and fulness of thought. It 
means a rush of new purpose and a great tide of 
in vigor ation. It means everything good and de- 
lightful, my friends. 

You cannot remain sick if you are thus renewed 
and regenerated. You cannot remain poor if 
you are open to the flow of Opulence. You 
cannot remain unhappy if you receive the inrush 
of Love and Joy. 



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Concentrate all your power on the one effort 
to draw from this Source of Supply. Pray if 
you will. Why not.^ Prayer is ''the soul's sin- 
cere desire, uttered or unexpressed." 

You desire only good. If you desire anything 
less it is only a mistake of your growing intelli- 
gence which will soon be corrected. You desire 
only good and that exists for you in the Super- 
conscious, awaiting your call. How can you 
think yourself sick and miserable with all life's 
richest treasures at your very door.^^ 

The New Thought is helping you on because it 
does not deal in the old hackneyed thought of 
passed ages, that is like old, long-used coin worn 
so thin as to be nearly valueless. It is giving 
out to you fresh coin from the mint, showing you 
new truth, for although truth is as old as the hills, 
and older, there is now a new presentation of it. 
It is telling you of laws hitherto undiscovered, 
by which you can improve and idealize your 
life in every particular. It is showing you how 
to apply those laws, and demonstrate results 
from their application every day. It is giving 
you clear vision of the world, and showing you 
that you have everything to live for. It is prov- 
ing old age and death to be spectres of false belief, 
without a shadow of reality. It is removing, 
one by one, all the bugbears of life that have 
filled your soul with terror and chilled the blood 
in your veins. It is proving that you have un- 
limited power of achievement. It is doing all 
this, and more. 

The New Thought is swinging the door leading 



52 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

into the Superconscious wide open, so that all 
who will may enter. 

Do not then lie down at the portal like a beggar 
and whine. Get up and put on your purple and 
fine linen, for all are princes who enter the King- 
dom of the Superconscious. 




CHAPTER FIVE 

HOW TO HEAL YOURSELF AND OTHERS 

IN my search for the secret of New Thought 
Healing I studied Faith Cure, Mental Sug- 
gestion, Hypnotism, Christian Healing, Divine 
Science and Christian Science. All seemed good 
and helpful with the exception of Hypnotism, 
which I consider injurious, but I failed to find 
just what I was seeking, and the door to the 
Superconscious stood merely ajar, not wide 
open. Then I turned to Theosophy, not because 
of its therapeutic value but because of its exposi- 
tion of occult laws. I thus learned much of the 
mobility of Matter and its obedience to Spirit. 
During this time of study I felt like an embryotic 
germ, blind and groping for sustenance, ever 
seeking something, but blindfolded so that I 
could not see and grasp what I sought. After- 
ward, as I looked back on this experience I could 
see that I had been growing and moving toward 
the light. 

Finally came an illumination in which I saw 
all spiritual substance as one and indivisible, 
from which I argued that I must be one with this 
indivisible spiritual substance or else I must be 
NOTHING, and since Emerson said, ''When the 



54 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

spiritual energy is directed on something out- 
ward then is it a thought," a statement which I 
beheved, then, since I could think, I must be of 
spiritual substance, possessing spiritual energy. 

Then I turned to Spinoza and read, ''If God 
be Infinite Substance, there can be no substance 
outside of God, and Man is therefore no sub- 
stance, or he is God." This corroborated my 
thought as to the oneness of substance. 

Substance, according to Spinoza, is not a mate- 
rial apart or distinct from God, which he manip- 
ulates in the formation of worlds. He teaches 
instead, ''Extension is an attribute of God, or 
God is an extended thing." 

If God or Substance be an extended thing, 
then no point of extension can be other than 
intelligent Substance, for unintelligent Substance 
could not be God-Substance. 

If God creates by the extension of Himself, then 
Man is formed by the pushing forth into exter- 
nals of God-Substance, hence Man is either no 
Substance or he is God-Substance. But while 
Man is formed by the extension of Substance, 
he is also formed by the limitation of Substance, 
for were he not limited he would have no form. 
God is limitless in extension and also limited 
in extension. This sounds contradictory, but 
it is as though Infinite and Unlimited Substance 
should set up within itself limits. Indeed the 
very conception of infinite extension implies 
infinite limits; for when the mind attempts to 
think of extension infinitely extended, it reaches 
out into space, until it is forced to set up a limit; 



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but just as surely is it forced to look beyond that 
limit, only to set up another, and so on through 
infinity. Therefore the limitations of Man do 
not prove that he is not of God-Substance, but 
rather that he is, for God-Substance sets up limits 
within itself, but they are limits like the horizon 
that vanishes as we advance upon it. So do 
Man's limitations vanish before the advance of 
the intrepid and adventurous soul. 

Then I turned to Nature and there I saw all 
living, growing things unfolding from a centre. 
I saw Life ever pushing forth from a centre to a 
circumference, and finally it came to me as a 
sort of revelation that God is at the Centre of 
Being, and from that Centre is continually 
extending His Substance into Creation as the 
sun extends itself in its ray. I saw that God is 
the Living Soul of Creation, everywhere present 
in it and yet focussing in dynamic vibrations 
at the centre of every seed and at the soul centre 
of every human being. 

Then, for the first time did I have a satis- 
factory explanation of the manner in which 
God acts in our activities, and I understood why 
Fenelon said: 

''AH that exists, exists only by the communi- 
cation of God's Infinite Being; all that has 
intelligence, has it only by derivation from His 
Sovereign Reason; and all that acts, acts only 
from the impulse of His Supreme Activity. It 
is He who does all in all; it is He who at each 
instant of our life is the beating of our heart, 
the movement of our limbs, the light of our 



56 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

eyes, the intelligence of our spirit, the Soul of 
our soul." 

That is exactly my conception of God. I 
believe that He is in the very beating of our heart, 
in the movement of our limbs, in the light of our 
eyes, and in the intelligence of our spirit, and that 
He is the Soul of our soul. 

This places God within, does it not.^ Still, 
because God is immanent He is none the less 
transcendent. He is the great, living spiritual 
Presence within each one of us, and yet at the 
same time He is omnipresent. Electricity may 
be everywhere existent in the atmosphere, and 
yet come to a focus in certain places. This may 
seem an irreverent illustration to apply to God, 
but no natural fact can be irreverent, for God 
ensouls all Nature. 

In order to heal yourself or others you must 
hold the right conception of God and of your- 
self, else you will not induce the flow of the heal- 
ing current, or, I should say, increase its flow, 
for there is a natural power in all organisms that 
works for their betterment. It is called the Vis 
Medicatrix Naturae and it often heals the sick 
without aid from drugs or other curatives. In 
many cases, however, it needs help, and nothing 
helps so effectually as mental and spiritual re- 
inforcement, for it is an intelligent power, and 
accepts suggestion. It can be intensified by 
affirmation or suggestion as to what it shall do 
for the organism. 

As Thought is a Force, or, as Emerson calls it, 
*' Spiritual energy turned outward," therefore 



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the healing Word is mighty with spiritual vibra- 
tions. The power of the Word is great or small 
according to the state of the mind projecting 
it. There are comparatively ''dead words" 
and there are ''live words." All depends upon 
the amount of Spirit that is in them. 

To speak the Word, then, is of no more avail 
than a passing breeze unless that Word be alive 
with spiritual energy, and the way to fill it with 
spiritual energy is to first produce within your- 
self the mental state that calls forth the spiritual 
current from your centre in God. 

You can do this because of the very nature of 
Mind, for it is by nature formative, that is, 
it forms receptacles that the Spirit fills with life. 
These receptacles are called Thought-Forms. 

To illustrate — Let us suppose that before you 
is a spring of water from which you would drink. 
To do so you must have a receptacle to catch 
the water and convey it to your mouth. You 
shape a leaf, or curve your hands into the needed 
receptacle, for one of some kind you must have 
to make use of the water. Or you bend down 
and place your mouth to the stream, in which 
event your mouth becomes the receptacle. 

Not in so mechanical a manner does the mind 
shape its Thought-Forms for the receiving of 
Spirit, but nevertheless it does shape actual forms, 
and those forms are thoughts that are images 
or pictures of Truth, and the deeper, broader 
and more capacious those Thought-Forms, the 
more Spirit do they hold. 

You need, therefore, to examine your mind to 



58 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

see what your thoughts really are. I mean, 
you should see what you iJiink concerning God, 
concerning yourself and concerning the world 
in general. If your thoughts are shaped accord- 
ing to REALITY, or what REALLY IS, then you 
have good mental forms for the receiving of 
Spirit. Otherwise you have not. 

When I speak of the receiving of Spirit I do 
not mean that Spirit is a Something separate and 
apart from you. Spirit is at the Centre of Being, 
and as it flows outward into externals it pro- 
duces YOU, first in your inner self and then in your 
outer self. This outer self is an outer part of 
your mind, and it is this which is formative. 
It is this that shapes thoughts for the receiving 
of Spirit. 

Let me illustrate more fully — Suppose a liquid, 
plastic substance should solidify at its boundary 
lines, thus forming cells or receptacles into which 
the liquid part of the substance continued to flow. 
This would describe, as well as any material 
terms could, your actual oneness with, but ap- 
parent separateness from. Spirit. At the centre 
is Spirit, liquid, plastic, flowing, so to speak, 
although this does not really define it, and as it 
flows outward to the circumference of your 
mind and body, it solidifies into form, making 
thus receptacles for itself to flow into, first be- 
coming Thought-Forms, and later, Body-Cells. 
In itself Spirit is formless, but it evolves forms 
out of itself in which to hold itself. It builds 
forms as the spider weaves its web out of its own 
substance, and then dwells in the web, made out 



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of itself. Water is one with the ice that is formed 
on the surface, and thus is your mind, with its 
Thought-Forms, one with the Spirit. Your body, 
with its tissue-cells, being an output from your 
mind, is also one with the Spirit. 

You cannot think at all without making some 
kind of a Thought-Form, and that Thought-Form 
is either receptive or non-receptive to Spirit. 
If all your Thought-Forms were receptive you 
would always think live thoughts and be 
full of health, joy, and all the good things that 
come from Spirit. Your evolution consists in 
consciously creating new and better Thought- 
Forms. Had you started in life with the right 
beliefs you would have been an automaton in- 
stead of a living, growing creature, so do not 
deplore your mistaken beliefs, but set yourself 
gladly to correct, revise and remodel them. 

The process of thinking is largely mental pict- 
uring. What you think you picture mentally, 
and what you picture mentally is the form 
your thought assumes, for, as I have said before 
— Mind is formative. It is always creating 
Thought-Forms that the Spirit fills with life, 
according to the nature and capacity of those 
Thought-Forms . 

If you hold a mental picture of God as a Great 
Person, or large type of Man, seated on a throne, 
in some remote region above the clouds, you 
are not thinking in accord with Truth, in accord 
with what God really is, and therefore your 
Thought-Form is a dead form, and not a fit 
receptacle for the Spirit. 



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This conception of God is proved to be untrue 
by "reductio ad absurdum," for if God be over 
your head he must be under the feet of the people 
on the opposite side of the globe. 

I assume that you have outgrown this childish 
conception of God, formed when the human race 
was in its childhood, and knew so little of science 
as to suppose this earth to be a flat surface, 
instead of a sphere. Then, too, the natural 
tendency of the mind is to look up to that which 
it reveres, hence the conception of a God above 
the clouds. 

But while you have rid yourself of this con- 
ception in a measure, the sense of separateness 
from God still lingers with you, as a last vestige 
of a mistaken race belief, somewhat as the vermi- 
form appendix lingers in the body, though now out- 
grown as to use, and often aggressive and harmful. 

To get rid of this vestige of false belief you must 
picture God as Omnipresent, Formless, Spiritual 
Substance, and see this Substance as taking on 
FORM and pushing outward from a hidden centre 
into the outer world, yourself included. Then 
think of this flowing spirit as feeding you with 
LIFE, LOVE, ENERGY, and INTELLIGENCE Contin- 
ually, your mind and body receiving this living 
current. 

The stream of Life flows through you to a de- 
gree without your conscious cooperation, else 
you could not live one instant, because your 
life supply would be cut off. By cooperating 
consciously you increase the flow of Spirit and 
receive more abundant Life. 



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It is the lack of a fuller flow of this living 
current, shut off partially as it is by our false 
beliefs or dead Thought-Forms, that is the cause 
of our weakness, disease, old age and death. 
To have the true idea of God and of ourselves is 
to open wider the channel through which Spirit 
flows, and receive a fuller stream of renewing 
Life to counteract the material tendency of the 
body toward disintegration and death. 

If you did nothing else in treating yourself or 
others but hold the true conception of Man's 
oneness with God, the healing would be accom- 
plished, were it not that the mind wearies of 
holding one idea for a length of time without 
change, and as it thus wearies it fails to hold 
the thought clearly and strongly enough to 
produce the desired effect. For this reason it 
is necessary to add to the fundamental idea of 
oneness other ideas based upon it and in harmony 
with it. 

For example, — having pictured Spirit as flow- 
ing from the Centre outward through you, then 
direct it in thought, or picture it as going, to that 
part of mind or body that is weak or diseased. 
If any function or faculty seems to be failing, 
then picture the spirit as flowing into and vital- 
izing that function or faculty. 

Growths in any part of the body are due to 
a lack of proper activity or functioning. When 
any vital function becomes inert or deranged so 
that it fails to perform its office, effete matter is 
not thrown out of the system, as it should be, 
the circulation is impeded here and there, and 



62 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

the points of restriction become stopping places 
for particles of broken-down tissue in the blood. 
You know what would happen if a stream of 
water were arrested in its course. The water 
would become stagnant, and there would be a 
precipitation of whatever sediment the stream 
contained. Then, if the current sought outlet 
and made a detour in order to get it, the sedi- 
ment would remain where it was deposited, 
for the motion of the turning current would 
be sluggish, slow and without sufficient force to 
flush away the deposit. Surgeons have many 
technical terms that they use in describing the 
origin of tumors and malignant growths, but 
when given in simple language it amounts to 
what I have just stated. 

In treating a growth or congestion, picture the 
stream of Spirit as playing upon it and dispersing 
it. Hold also the thought — it is melting 
AWAY. Say this many times daily, and as you 
fall asleep at night. Keep this affirmation in 
mind day after day, and night after night. The 
same treatment applies to goitre. 

In Diabetes, — picture the Spirit as a living, 
electrical fire, such as appeared to the Apostles. 
See this fire as searching the kidneys and bladder 
and burning up the sugar in the urine. I know 
of a case in which an elderly man with a long- 
standing case of Sugar Diabetes was healed by 
this treatment in one month, so that upon exami- 
nation of the urine not a trace of sugar was found, 
and it never returned. I have also proof of a case 
of kidney trouble of forty years' duration that 



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was healed in a few months by this treatment. 
The same method destroys the uric acid that 
causes rheumatism. 

Should there be weakness in sight or hearing, 
a simple, easy, and most effective treatment is to 
— picture the Spirit as flowing to the eyes or 
ears and revitalizing them. 

Treatments are like inventions. What we want 
in them is a lack of superfluous detail, simplicity 
and adaptation to an end. In these days when 
we are learning to economize motion we must 
also learn to economize words. The Spirit does 
not hear through ''much speaking." It acts upon 
the merest suggestion. 

I am sometimes asked if the "Word of Healing" 
is some special word. It is not. It is any state- 
ment of health and wellbeing. If you formulate 
words in your own way they will be quite as 
effective as the set phrase or formula given you 
by a teacher. It is well enough to accept and 
use such formula until you are able to frame one 
of your own, but no longer. The sooner a stated 
formula takes a new form in your own mind, 
the greater its vibratory power, and the more 
Spirit it calls forth. 

I am also asked if the Word must be spoken 
aloud in order to be the spoken word. Not of 
necessity, for to formulate a thought in the 
mind is equivalent to speaking it, and a word 
spoken ''In the Silence" is surely not the audible 
word. 

There are occultists who contend that the 
audible word stirs vibrations not possible to the 



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inner or thought word, but I cannot testify to 
the truth of this, as I have never experimented 
with the audible word, the silent word having 
been sufficient for my purpose and wonderfully 
powerful. 

To mentally affirm that Spirit can renew any 
function of mind or body is to speak the Word 
that shall be made flesh, or in other words exter- 
nalized in mind, body and environment. 

That which creates any function can re-create 
or repair the same. The English surgeon. Sir 
William Gull, goes on record with these words: 

''What shall the doctors do.^ Rest and be still. 
The workman that made the machine can repair 
it." 

A material machine sometimes gets beyond 
repair because it is made of matter that wears 
out, but the human machine never gets beyond 
repair, for it is made of living tissue, which, 
according to Dr. Carrel of the Rockefeller Insti- 
tute, never wears out if it is properly fed and 
cleansed, getting stronger instead of weaker as 
it grows older. Dr. Carrel pronounces the ani- 
mal cell immortal because of its power to renew ; 
itself, and we of the New Thought believe that 
Spirit can vastly increase that power. 

God is the Divine Workman who constructed 
the human machine and He can repair and 
renew it, for with the Power of the Spirit all 
things that can be imagined are possible. 

Keep therefore before your mind this thought — 
God who made me can also re-make me. 

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re-make you, you will have a Thought-Form 
receptive to the renewing, recreating current of 
Life, and the effect will soon be evident in both 
mind and body. 

Bodily disease is usually attributable to an 
excess of dead material in the system, through 
having the mind clogged with dead thoughts, 
and thus causing their correspondence in the 
body. Children often inherit this state from the 
thought of some ancestor who has transmitted to 
them the diseased mental state causing physical 
disease. Such an inheritance can be annulled by 
the action of New Thought upon the diseased one. 
In such a case one should picture the stream of 
Spirit as flowing through the diseased body 
cleansing it of all useless and dead atoms. 

In treating mental faculties, memory for in- 
stance, as you cannot form a picture of it, you 
will either have to designate it by name, or 
you can say — "I now picture Spirit as flowing 
toward that faculty and vitalizing it so that it 
may do perfect work." 

In paralysis of mind or body, think spirit 
strongly into the paralyzed parts, giving life 
where there is now deadness. 

That dread disease tuberculosis, and others, 
whatever their nature, call for the same treatment 
that I have outlined in the few instances given. 
Specific details vary according to the case, of 
course, but the New Thought Healer must pos- 
sess enough intelligence to apply the principle 
in varied forms to varied cases. The method is 
always about the same, very simple, directly 



66 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

to the point, and couched in as few words as 
possible. 

If you find yourself lacking in ability to reach 
your ideals along any line of endeavor, it shows 
that your mind needs a greater flow of Spirit. 
Form a picture in your mind of what you wish 
to do, or state it in words, and then hold the 
thought that Spirit is flowing in the direction 
of your desire. 

Spirit is not only Life, but all that constitutes 
Life, so that it contains the very essence of Art, 
Music, Literature, Philosophy, Invention, Me- 
chanics, Manufacture, Commerce, Metaphysics, 
or any of the myriad forms of human activity. 
You can take from the stream of Life what you 
want very much as a tree on the bank of a river 
can absorb through its roots the chemicals in 
the water that enable it to grow and branch out. 
Your ability, in like manner, grows and branches 
through what you receive from the stream of 
Life. 

Do not get tense or excited in trying to help 
yourself or others, for that tends to pinch the 
channel and restrict the flow of Life. The 
more you realize that God's inexhaustible Power 
is yours, because of your oneness wTth God- 
Substance, the more you will see that there is 
nothing for you to fear or be anxious about. 
You need not even fear holding the wrong men- 
tal picture in giving treatments, for since you 
fervently desire the right one, the Infinite Power, 
working through you, will help you to form it. 
The wrong picture of today will change its out- 



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lines and become the right picture of tomorrow. 
You cannot go far amiss if you bear in mind the 
image of the sun and its ray or the ocean and its 
bay as symbolizing your oneness with God. 

You can use the following statement of oneness 
and will find it helpful — "I am open on my 
inner or spiritual side to the inexhaustible ocean 
of Divine Power. I flow forth from it and am 
one with it as a bay is one with the ocean, or as 
a ray of light is one with the sun." 

In treating others begin as you would in treat- 
ing yourself, with a realization of your oneness 
in substance with God, for through this realiza- 
tion will come your power. Then substitute this 
other person for yourself, calling mentally his or 
her name, for this secures the attention of the 
Subconscious Mind to which your suggestion is 
to be given. 

Tell the patient mentally that he is one in 
substance with God and that the healing current 
is waiting his call to flow through him to bring 
him into perfect health. Then picture the heal- 
ing current as flowing through the patient from 
his centre in God. Later picture it as going 
specially to the diseased point and acting upon it, 
according to the nature of the disease. Should 
it be a fever, picture it as a cooling flood. Should 
it be great weakness, with coldness of the parts, 
picture the current as warming and vivifying. 

Be filled with loving sympathy for your patient, 
for Love is the highest healing vibration. 

The patient need not be in your presence, for 
Thought goes to any distance and there is really 



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no separation in the omnipresent realm of Mind 
and Spirit. I know of cases of healing where 
healer and patient were separated from each 
other by thousands of miles. I know of other 
cases where a patient wrote to a healer and 
before the letter reached its destination the 
patient was healed, in which event the appeal 
from the patient instantly touched the Sub- 
conscious Mind of the healer and brought an 
immediate response. In such a case as this 
there is a strong sympathetic vibration and sim- 
ilarity of thought between healer and patient, 
so that appeal and response do not require the 
medium of ordinary communication. 

The mere process of giving treatment to your- 
self or others is quite simple. The difficulty 
lies, not in the treatment itself, but in the previous 
training of the mind to the needed state of power, 
by the eliminating of false beliefs and the estab- 
lishing of true ones. 

A skilled and efficient healer can give a treat- 
ment in from ten to fifteen minutes. When a 
longer time is needed it is because the mind has 
not been able to concentrate upon the healing 
thought. Sometimes it takes a beginner an 
hour or longer to get in condition for giving a 
treatment. 

To go into the Silence does not mean to banish 
all thought from the mind, for that is impossible. 
To stare at a spot on the wall and attempt utter 
vacuity of mind either brings on self-hypnotism 
or reduces to idiocy. To go into the Silence 
does mean to free the mind from certain thoughts 



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connected with cares, worries, anxieties, and all 
false beliefs of that nature, but you must not 
leave their place vacant, or like the unclean spirit 
recorded in St. Matthew, 12-44, they will return 
bringing seven more unclean spirits with them, 
and the last state shall be worse than the first. 
When you sweep and garnish your mind you 
must not leave it empty of occupants, but fill 
it at once with thoughts of truth, lest the un- 
clean spirits return. In the Silence your thought 
should dwell upon your immortal eternal being 
(The Shining One), and its oneness with God. This 
it is to be in the Silence, to still the turmoil of 
mortal life and be alone with God. The exter- 
nal, mortal life implies activity, noise and bustle; 
hence the life of the inner self, alone with God, 
is called '*In the Silence." 

In the Silence the mind is uplifted to that 
higher plane where it sees Man to be as disease- 
less and deathless as God Himself, for Man, be- 
ing of God-Substance, has the attributes of that 
Substance. 

From this high viewpoint of spiritual realiza- 
tion only can one heal the sick mind or the sick 
body, and indeed the sicknesses of the mind are 
quite as many and as serious as those of the body. 

False beliefs have the power conferred upon 
them by heredity and habit, but they can be 
cast out by the power of the Spirit. The truth 
shall make us free. 

Do not be disheartened if you do not get 
immediate results from your treatments. Some- 
times results are long delayed, but they come at 



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last if you are faithful and persistent. Think 
of Jacob who wrestled all through the night 
with God and in the morning won his blessing. 
Think of Job and his long-continued sorrows and 
trials, but by faith and patience he came into 
peace and prosperity. Bossuet says, "'God does 
not always refuse when He delays. He loves 
perseverance and grants it everything." 

And why.^ Because perseverance is a God 
attribute and by manifesting it we come into 
rapport with God, making the passage of his 
blessing clear and easy. God's perseverance is 
shown in the persistence of the Eternal Energy, 
which could not be eternal did it not persist. 

If you have relapses and setbacks in your 
progress toward health, do not be disheartened, 
for there is a rhythmic swing in growth which 
I will now explain to you. 

Professor Bose of the University of Calcutta, 
in studying the law of growth in plants, in- 
vented an ingenious instrument by which he could 
measure their growth, a growth that was imper- 
ceptible to the natural eye. He discovered that 
plants grow upward for five seconds, then shrink 
downward for five seconds, then remain sta- 
tionary for ten seconds, after which they start 
upward again and repeat the same round. In 
shrinking downward the motion is slower than 
in pushing upward, hence the five seconds of 
shrinkage do not carry the plant completely 
back to its starting point, so that, on the whole, 
it gains in stature. But note that the five seconds 
of shrinkage and the ten seconds of remaining 



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stationary are as three to one to the upward 
push. This is practically three steps backward 
to one step forward. (I will enlarge upon this in 
Chapter Eleven.) 

If your progress is something like that do not 
complain that you are not getting ahead, for you 
are. 

Every time you treat yourself or others you 
become stronger and your Word is more effective, 
and in time you will be so ensouled by the healing 
power that it will emanate even from your very 
garments. You will then heal unconsciously, and 
in some instances, where the faith of the patient 
is very great, you will heal instantaneously. 

To have faith in the invisible, intangible 
healing power is at first like stepping into seem- 
ing VOID, but you will find in that void the solid 
ROCK under your feet. 



CHAPTER SIX 

THE HELPING HAND 

DO not think you stand alone in sickness, 
weakness, poverty and misery, for you 
are encircled by Love and you lie in the lap of 
Wisdom. You are a child in your mother's 
arms, nourished at her breast, the breast of kind 
Nature, who though she sometimes punishes, is 
ever ready with her reward. She only punishes 
to drive you back into the path leading to your 
greatest happiness. When entreaty and advice 
both fail, then she applies the lash to save you 
from the destroyer. 

There is a natural healing power called the 
Vis Medicatrix Naturse. It is generally known 
only as a function working for the good and 
preservation of the physical organism, but the 
New Thought practitioner views this physical 
functioning as only one phase of an infinite, uni- 
versal Power, working to bring the ideal into 
manifestation. The single phase known as the 
Vis Medicatrix Naturse is wonderful, while the 
entire Principle, at work through all creation, is 
great and marvellous beyond our present com- 
prehension. 

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all that is revealed of it at the present time, for 
such knowledge will increase, and we shall finally 
see that the entire universe is moving toward 
ideal states, and that Man's dream of Heaven 
may be realized here on earth. 

The universe could not reach perfection until 
its parts are perfect. A perfect fabric must be 
made of perfect warp and woof. If threads are 
uneven and defective the whole fabric will be 
uneven and defective. The perfection of a whole 
presupposes the perfection of all its parts; there- 
fore, when the universe reaches the ideal state, 
its every part must be equally ideal. 

This involves perfection for you, for me, and 
for all humanity. It means a steady growing 
into better and better states, which are naturally 
happier and happier states. 

Vis Medicatrix Naturse is a Latin term for the 
Healing Power in Nature. If Love did not gov- 
ern Nature then no such healing power would 
be vested in it. This power heals wounds, knits 
broken bones, throws out poisons, renews vigor, 
and by devious ways restores the body to health, 
even when such restoration may seem utterly 
impossible. 

This healing power does not stop with the body, 
but is operative in healing mental wounds and 
mental suffering of all kinds. 

It also extends itself to circumstances and 
environment, because circumstances and environ- 
ment are an extension of the individual, as the 
odor of a flower is an extension in fine particles 
of ether of the flower. As an odor corresponds 



74 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

exactly to the nature of the flower, so does the 
extension of the individual, as represented by 
circumstances and environment, correspond ex- 
actly to the life and thought of the individual. 

There are states and conditions of environment 
that correspond to the ailments of the body. 
There are wounds, lesions and broken bones of 
environment, as exemplified by the breaking of 
settled states by means of separation, bereave- 
ment and alienation. There are neuralgias of 
environment, or the sharp pains caused by 
violent antipathies and quarrels. There are in- 
digestions, or the mal-assimilation of relatives 
and friends, resulting in fermentation and dis- 
comfort. There are catarrhs, congestions, fevers 
and other diseases of environment quite as actual 
as those of the body, and the Healing Powder of 
Nature is fortunately as effective in its action 
upon diseases of environment as upon those of 
the body. 

What bearing has this upon your life.^ Why, 
it is a Helping Hand outstretched to uplift 
and relieve you. It is at work every moment 
to bring the chaos and disease of body, mind and 
environment into harmonious and beautiful order. 
It is helping you out of present states into more 
beautiful ones that shall make glad your soul. 

Out of chaos into order is the process of Crea- 
tion, and it is also the process of RE-creation, 
which is RE-pair, or in other words, it is the re- 
pairing or new pairing or new adjustment of 
mental and physical atoms. 

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Matter this planet came into existence, and 
every form of life upon it had the same origin. 
Biologists tell us that in watching the forming 
of a bird in an egg the yolk appears to be pinched 
in here and there as by an invisible hand, until 
the form of the bird is vaguely outlined. Day 
by day this form grows more clearly defined 
until the living bird escapes from the shell. This 
illustrates the mode of creating in every in- 
stance. It is always the drawing together of 
indeterminate atoms into definite form. 

The One Mind, arranging and rearranging at- 
oms in you, is continually re-creating you, from 
moment to moment, from hour to hour, from day 
to day, and from year to year. 

Whether you wake or whether you sleep, the 
re-creation is accomplishing itself in you. The 
healing, idealizing, curative influence is working 
in and through you to bring you into the Heaven 
of your heart's desire. This is the Helping Hand. 

You can hinder results or you can advance 
them according to your failure to recognize or 
your readiness to cooperate with this Power. 
The best, simplest and most natural mode of 
cooperation is to think many times daily of the 
existence and continuous activity of this Healing 
Power, for creative action is intensified by con- 
scious thought. 

The healing of a scratch is actual evidence 
bearing witness to the Vis Medicatrix Naturae, 
but not so apparent is its functioning in the 
inner, invisible mechanism of the body, and even 
less apparent is it when acting upon your mind 



76 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

or environment. Where evidence is lacking your 
wisest course is to accept the Heahng Power on 
faith and await results. When you get those 
results then will your faith be justified. 

I know of no more uplifting and hopeful out- 
look than to see that my life is being continually 
shaped into more ideal form, that it may become 
a perfect expression of Divine Order, Health, 
Beauty, Opulence and Joy. Thus and thus only 
can I express the Divine. 

Just as surely as the yolk of the egg, so vague 
and shapeless, is the nucleus of the bird that is 
to be, so am I now the nucleus of a higher, hap- 
pier being. So are you. The law is universal 
and applies to all. 

I can endure an unhappy hour if I know it 
ushers in a happier one, and especially if I know 
the former holds within itself the germ of the 
latter, and without the former the latter could 
not have existence. As the seed generates the 
future entity, so is the evolution of a human 
life, each new phase of it evolving from the 
preceding. 

Lacking this knowledge we have in the past 
hindered the good to come, for in dark hours of 
sickness, sorrow, bereavement and trouble, we 
have not consciously recognized the Power that 
was even at that very moment striving to bring 
us into better states ; and the law is — If we do 
not consciously recognize this Power we handicap 
its endeavor, by reason of the fact that our 
conscious thought influences for better or worse 
all that concerns us. 



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Fortunately for us this Healing Power stands 
ever at hand awaiting our oft-belated recogni- 
tion, and it is never too late for us to begin to 
cooperate with it, for even after death it helps 
us in the life beyond. 

We are apt to think of the Subconscious which 
is Unconscious or Non-Conscious as being inactive 
because we are not cognizant of its action. That 
is the great mistake of our lives. When we under- 
stand that the Subconscious never sleeps but 
acts continuously, for our weal or woe, we shall 
know that we control our destiny, and do so 
through moving the Subconscious to the meas- 
ure of our Conscious Thought. 

Do not mistake my meaning and think that 
Superconscious, Conscious and Subconscious are 
three separate and distinct Minds. They are 
all One Mind, but One Mind differentiated in 
functioning as a tree might be differentiated into 
root, trunk and branch. 

Subconscious Mind is as intelligent as Conscious 
Mind, if not more so, as its activity indicates 
a very high order of intelligence. The Vis 
Medicatrix Naturae is an intelligent activity of 
the Subconscious, and therefore we are not 
conscious of its operation, noting only the re- 
sults, and by virtue of them assuming that it 
is operative. 

Having satisfied ourselves of its operation 
toward beneficent ends, we cooperate with it or 
intensify it by dwelling in thought upon it, and 
by suggesting to it certain channels for its forces 
to move in. When Conscious and Subconscious 



78 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

have a united purpose the former does not pull 
against the latter to hinder its action. But if, 
on the other hand, the Conscious Mind is filled 
with doubts and misgivings as to the ultimate 
victory of good, with its attendant joy and 
health, then the Conscious Mind pulls against 
instead of with the Subconscious, and hinders its 
accomplishment. 

It devolves upon you, then, no matter what 
your present state may be, nor how disheartening 
it may seem, to see it mentally as holding the 

GERM of FUTURE BETTERMENT. 

That great scientist Sir Oliver Lodge has ar- 
rived at the following conclusion : 

"No existing universe can tend on the whole 
toward contraction and decay, because that 
would foster annihilation, and so any incipient 
attempt would not have survived. Consequently, 
an actually existing and flowing universe must 
on the whole cherish development, expansion, 
growth, and so tend toward infinity rather than 
toward zero. Given existence of a non-stagnant 
kind and ultimate development must be its 
law." 

Note how that term "flowing universe" co- 
incides with the Radiant Centre idea that Life 
flows outward into expression from a Centre 
which is God. 

The universe is on its way to higher and 
better states. That which tends toward infinity 
tends toward perfection. One cannot think of 
the Infinite as Imperfect, as subject to bondage 
or unhappy conditions. Development, expansion. 



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growth, all lead to increasing freedom from all 
that restricts and binds. 

Bonds, however, have their use for a time, 
for Power is not gained without overcoming the 
limits set by opposition, restraint, resistance, 
obstacle and hindrance. That is why I say — 
The unpleasantness of the present hour holds 
within itself the undeveloped germ of future joy. 
The fairest lily has its inception in the bondage 
of downpressing earth and darkness, from which, 
and by means of which it pushes upward into 
freedom and light. 

Bear constantly in mind that the Vis Medica- 
trix Naturae is always working for the good of 
your mind, the good of your body, and the good 
of your life in its every detail. 

If appearances contradict this statement, let 
me remind you that appearances are like the 
horizon, only an appearance, and the horizon no 
longer deceives you, since you have learned that 
it does not mark the end of the earth. Neither 
do your apparent limitations mark the end of 
your endeavor, for the horizon line symbolizes 
another illusion that has long held the world 
in bondage to disease and weakness, namely, the 
MENTAL HORIZON LINE that limits your powers to 
the finite, when the truth is they extend beyond 
this illusive line and stretch far and away into 
the Infinite. 

Not the least of your Infinite Powers is the 
Vis Medicatrix Naturae, the Healing Power, the 
Helping Hand, that is working unceasingly for 
your betterment, and for a higher type of well- 



80 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

being than you can now imagine, for, in your 
present state, at its best, when compared to your 
coming state, you are as the grub to the butter- 
fly, or the atom to the archangel. 

Goaded, driven, coaxed and carried, you go 
on your way to better things, in spite of your 
mistakes and shortcomings. You could not stop 
your progress entirely if you tried, but you could 
hinder it for a time by not cooperating with the 
law. 

Be at peace with your surroundings for they 
are an indispensable part of your unfoldment. 
They are in your life by law, and they will go 
out of your life by law, as the ripe apple drops 
from the tree. Some day you will look back 
and see it so. Then you will know that without 
certain unpleasant experiences your mind could 
never have gained its subsequent buoyancy and 

joy. 

Wine in the stage of fermentation is cloudy, 
but give it time and the dregs will settle, leaving 
the wine clear and bright. So shall your life 
separate itself from its dregs and become a spark- 
ling, radiant heaven of hope and joy. 

Keep the Vis Medicatrix Naturae, the Helping 
Hand, before your mental vision and aflBrm 
over and over again that the Law of Love which 
is also the Law of Evolution is bringing you out 
of the confined, dark, seed period to the time of 
blossoming. Trust the Infinite Love that has 
you in its keeping and rest in peace. 




CHAPTER SEVEN 

ENSOULING THOUGHT-FORMS 

I WILL now tell you something about the 
creating or ensouling of Thought-Forms. To 
do that I must define briefly several terms with 
which you may not be familiar, or, if you are, 
a definition will not be out of place, as it will 
show more clearly what I intend to say. 

Dating far back to the beginning of language 
we find our present word ''Man" had its root in 
an ancient Sanscrit word ''Manas," which means 
"Thinker." This word has come down through 
the long ages with but little change, until now, 
instead of "Manas" it reads "Man" and it still 
means "Thinker." 

Man in his real essence is a thinking prin- 
ciple, and that Principle, the true Ego, is called 
by Occultists "Manas," because the term char- 
acterizes the Ego as a Thinker. The Ego is 
known as "Manas," and its plane of activity is 
known as the "Manasic Plane." 

There is also a plane of Feeling, Emotion and 
Desire on which the Manas or Thinker functions, 
and that is called the Kamic Plane. (Not Kar- 
mic but Kamic, for Karma and Kama are two 
distinct terms.) 



82 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

I use these occult terms for the reason that I 
get my knowledge of the creation of Thought- 
Forms from Vedantic Philosophy and wish to 
give credit to the same, also because I know of 
no better terms with which to define the planes 
of Thought and Feeling. 

Manasic activity and Kamic activity must 
combine to produce the vibration that builds 
Form and moulds Matter. 

How is this building of Form accomplished? 
The process is difficult to put in words; never- 
theless, I shall try to describe it. The creation 
of Form is a subtle and fine process and cannot 
be detected by the physical senses. We should 
know nothing of Thought and its transmission 
did our knowledge depend upon a conscious 
perception of it as it passes from out the mind 
to perform its various activities. Telepathy or 
thought transference is known only by its results. 
That is to say, — when two people agree to send 
each other thought messages, and those messages 
are received, word for word, as clearly as though 
spoken audibly to the listening ear, or through 
a mental perception as distinct as though written 
upon paper, why then there can be no doubt 
that Thought has been actually transmitted from 
mind to mind. We neither see, hear nor feel such 
thoughts in their coming or going, and yet it is 
demonstrated in hundreds of instances, by scienti- 
fic experiment, that they do come and go. They 
often present themselves to our minds something 
as our own thoughts do, coming from we know 
not where. Whenever we have a thought for 



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which we cannot account by the law of asso- 
ciation, a thought so unrelated to our other 
thoughts as to be actually startling, we may 
safely assume that it comes to us either straight 
from the Universal Mind, or is transmitted to us 
from some other human mind. Experimental 
tests have demonstrated the law of thought 
transmission over and over again, until the fact 
of Telepathy is no longer questioned among sci- 
entific men or intelligent people. 

The mode of ensouling Thought-Forms, so far 
as it can be described, is as follows: 

The Manas or Thinking Principle forms a men- 
tal image by drawing into definite shape the 
diffused and highly etherealized matter of the 
Manasic Plane. The mental image thus formed 
is an ethereal creation, a thing without form, 
color or weight, and it is drawn down into the 
Kamic Plane of Feeling or Emotion where it is en- 
souled and then becomes a substantial Thought- 
Form, a living entity, possessing form, color and 
weight and having the power of moving from 
place to place in accordance with its desire. It 
obeys the law of life and moves outward from 
the centre to the circumference of the individual, 
even going beyond that circumference into the 
surrounding world. 

A collection of these Thought-Forms round 
about us create what is called a Thought Aura, 
and it impresses other people either pleasantly 
or unpleasantly according to the nature of the 
Thoughts composing it. The person with a pleas- 
ing Aura is liked and attracts success, while the 



84 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

person with the unpleasing Aura is disliked and 
repels success. 

You, in your inner essence are a Thought ema- 
nating from the Divine Mind, and your thoughts, 
in their turn, are secondary entities, emanating 
from your mind. 

As you have independent action and can go 
here and there at will, so your thoughts, being 
microcosmic editions of yourself, acquire inde- 
pendent action and move out into space, doing 
many things of which you are not aware. Your 
thought is capable of going of its own accord to 
places and people utterly unknown to you, and 
to this you owe much that seems unaccountable. 
Congenial friends are drawn together in this way 
from remote parts of the world, and so are peo- 
ple who can benefit each other. It is thus that 
Desire and Aspiration find their fulfilment, and 
it is thus that Success is gained by thinking. 

Some thoughts are weak and short lived. 
Others are strong and able bodied. You feed 
and nourish a thought into strength and vitality 
by THINKING IT day after day and year after 
year. If you think a thought of health in this 
persistent way you finally make the thought so 
strong that it dominates the diseased conditions 
and drives them out of your body. 

Your physical organism may be described as 
a collection or assemblage of Thought-Forms. 
The thoughts you think, going out from your 
centre embody themselves in your nerves, mus- 
cles, flesh, bone, blood and secretions. These are 
actually made and re-made by your Thought- 



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Forms, the "stay-at-home" ones that do not get 
out of your body into your environment, and 
since every part of you is composed of em- 
bodied Thought, every atom of your body must 
have its soul or intelligent principle that responds 
to every thought you think and every emotion 
you feel, for the intelligent central principle or 
soul of the atoms is highly sensitive to all in- 
fluences. Were this not true there could be no 
possible relation between the healing thought 
and the diseased atoms it would affect and 
control. 

Sometimes the intelligent principle in the 
atom is lethargic and slow to respond, and in 
such cases healing is slow. This lethargic state 
of the atom is not always due to the patient's 
mind but dates back to ancestors who held cer- 
tain mental states and transmitted them by 
heredity to their descendants. Time and effort 
will disintegrate the inherited thought, even as 
the rocks of the earth are ground to powder 
by the continued action of the elements. 

Your body of today is the sum of your past 
thoughts and the thoughts of your ancestors. 
This would seem a difficult or even impossible 
proposition were it not that the Law of Life is 
working with you to produce that which you are 
destined to be, a perfect individual. This is 
the end and aim of Evolution, and therefore I 
say — The Law of Life is with you in your seek- 
ing for perfect health of mind and body. 

Do not think of your atoms as fixed, for they 
are not. There is a temporary fixity, without 



86 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

which the preservation of Form would be im- 
possible, but this temporary fixity is always sub- 
ject to the action of Spirit, to that stream of 
spiritual life that is continually flowing forth from 
the Centre of Being and becoming you. 

You always generate more Thought than you 
can utilize in your body, and this surplus of 
Thought constitutes the current that travels 
outward into your Aura and beyond it. You 
produce your Thought Aura, and it may be as 
sweet and delightful as the perfume of a flower, 
or as noxious and repellent as the stench of 
putrefaction. Your Aura is an emanation of 
your Thought and corresponds to its quality 
in every particular. 

No one can harm you if your thoughts are 
continually good, for each good thought is a 
positive force, forming part of your Aura, and 
helping to build around you a protective 
environment. As you go on making good 
Thought-Forms they become a veritable army 
of protectors, and this is the occult meaning of 
the text — ''He shall give His angels charge over 
thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." 

When Stradella sang holy songs before the 
altar his protective Aura was so strong that 
the assassins, stealing upon him, were powerless. 
They could not strike his death blow. 

We can readily believe such things possible 
when we reflect that Thought-Forms are ensouled 
with intelligence and energy, and that they can 
therefore mass themselves together as a protective 
army around the person projecting them. 



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To be convinced of this is to become absolutely 
fearless in all conditions and circumstances. 

Fear thoughts produce unwholesome, diseased, 
weak atoms, so it is necessary to eliminate fear 
from your mind, and you can do this if you realize 
that you are one with God-Substance and have 
nothing to fear. 

Anxious, worried and sad thoughts come under 
the head of fear thoughts, and they can be dis- 
pelled by the knowledge that you are of indes- 
tructible spiritual Substance that cannot be 
harmed. 

God's Infinite Power is our power, therefore 
we have nothing to fear, nothing to be anxious 
about, nothing to worry over, and no real cause 
to be sad. When we perceive all this then our 
troubles fall away from us and a vast peace per- 
vades the mind, registering itself also in the 
body. 

But why is it that fear thoughts gain such 
control over us before we know the truth of our 
being? I will tell you why. We trace our inheri- 
tance of mind clear back to the savage, the fetich 
worshipper, who feared an unknown and undis- 
covered world, in which he fancied an enemy 
ambushed behind every tree. Psychologists, like 
Dr. Stanley Hall, have shown us how we have 
inherited our fears from the early savage, but 
fail to show us how to get rid of them. It re- 
mains for the New Thought to show us that. 

Remember that your future body is to be made 
up of your present Thought-Forms, or ensouled 
atoms. Even the materialist Haeckel in his 



88 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

work on Evolution is obliged to accord souls to 
atoms to account for their intelligence and activity. 
You can address Thought-Forms as you would 
human beings, telling them what you wish them 
to do. Thus, from day to day you will grow into 
better conditions by creating new and vibrant 
Thought-Forms that shall bring you Health, 
Prosperity and Happiness. 




CHAPTER EIGHT 

THE QUICKENING 

IN the forming of an organism there is a moment 
when the Quickening comes, and from that 
moment the organism becomes a creature of new 
Hfe and action. Before the Quickening it has 
life in a certain sense; that is, it grows and has 
some functional activities, but after the Quick- 
ening it has a new power, that of independent 
or volitional movement, of acting upon impulses 
of its own. From being a negative being that 
is acted upon, it becomes an acting entity, an 
individual with a will of its own. 

Take the embryo of a bird in the egg, for in- 
stance. The yolk of the egg gradually assumes 
the form of the bird. Little by little it develops 
a spinal column, heart, lungs, etc., and all the 
while it is being nourished in its growth by the 
albumen in the surrounding white of the egg. 
When the form of the bird is nearly complete 
and it is ready to break forth from the shell, 
the Quickening comes, and with it the instinct 
to work its way out of the shell. The bird was 
alive before the Quickening, but negative and 
acted upon rather than acting. With the Quick- 
ening comes a higher, more positive life, and the 
power to move and achieve for itself. 



90 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

So is it with the human embryo on a larger 
scale and to a higher degree. From the instant 
of Quickening the foetus becomes something dy- 
namic, and finally assists in its own delivery at 
the time of its birth. 

There is an all-pervasive analogy between 
things physical and things metaphysical, and so 
I infer that there is a Quickening in the mind 
of Man for which preparation is made. For a 
long time the mind is vague and negative in 
its action, but all the while it is growing, develop- 
ing, forming for the Quickening. In other words, 
we are not fully individualized, and we must pre- 
pare to take a step upward into a higher individ- 
ualization. We must make ready for the mental 
Quickening. 

All our vague and desultory thinking is really 
working to an end in which it shall take on orderly 
arrangement around a central thought and become 
organic, for what is true of the embryo is equally 
true of the embryotic individual, the human 
being. 

And after the Quickening comes the birth into 
a higher life. All along the line of Evolution 
things are being born again upon the next higher 
plane. The one-celled organism is born again 
as the two-celled, the three-celled, the many- 
celled organism, and so Life sweeps on in its up- 
ward trend. 

The sadness, the questioning, the dull monot- 
ony, the drawbacks, the heart sickness, are all 
phenomena of the embryotic life and must be 
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reach the Quickening which is close at hand. 
Grief, pain and trouble are the pangs of gesta- 
tion and pass away when the embryo attains its 
growth. 

In the forming of the embryo the yolk of the 
egg in which it dwells is fed by the albumen in 
the surrounding white of the egg. The germ of 
the future life lies in the yolk and the yolk is 
in the centre, surrounded by the white. So does 
Man lie in the centre of his environment, and 
that which the environment contains in the way 
of event and circumstance is necessary to the 
forming of his mind while it is preparing for the 
Quickening. 

You are now organizing your mind, making of 
yourself an organic being mentally. You are 
already organized physically, but the present 
organization is imperfect and is being unsettled 
preparatory to a reorganization of a more perfect 
character. Old habits of body are being dis- 
turbed for the purpose of forming new habits. 
It is the same with the mind, only the mind has 
never been organized like the body, and not hav- 
ing been organized, it is the more easily made to 
conform to a new order of thought. There are, 
of course, many old habits of thought to break 
up, and new habits to form, but the old habits 
are not crystallized in organic formation, so they 
are plastic and yield readily to formative in- 
fluences. 

If your mind feels peculiarly chaotic and 
unsettled, it merely shows that a new order is 
about to form, for chaos always precedes a new 



92 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

order. It did in the Creation, according to the 
account of it in Genesis, and we have the same 
process now in creating. In chaos, atoms are 
lying about in disorder, and the creative act con- 
sists in drawing those atoms that are related to 
each other together into an organic form of life. 
In the creation of these organic forms there always 
comes the Quickening. 

I am reiterating the term "Quickening" so 
that you may have it written indelibly in your 
mind. I want it to fill your consciousness full 
for a time, until you are permeated with the 
conviction that a Quickening is to come to you. 
I want you also to know that you are now work- 
ing to make it come, working with Creative Law, 
working with God. 

Work that has no happy, pleasurable end in 
view is a treadmill, and as such it is a torture 
to a sensitive mind, so I point out to you the 
end toward which you are moving, as the Apos- 
tles of old moved toward the Pentecostal Fire, 
the Quickening of the Spirit. 

As they moved toward the Great Event, so did 
it move toward them, until there came the Exal- 
tation. 

Spirit dwells in us continually. Without it 
we could not draw the breath of life. It does 
not descend upon us from the outside, but from 
the inside. Spirit expresses itself through us, 
but it has lower and higher phases of expression. 
We have passed through many of the lower forms 
of this expression and are now being prepared 
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finished the Spirit will flow into it, and lo, the 
Quickening and later the new birth. 

When you feel inclined to lament your apparent 
failure to make your life what you wish it to be, 
take comfort in the blessed truth that you are 
preparing for your Quickening, that no matter 
how dull and wretched the outlook, how sharp 
the pain of conflict, how deep the grief, how heavy 
the trouble, all are factors in producing the great 
result. All are formative influences, shaping you 
into the perfect form that shall be a fit dwell- 
ing for the Spirit. All things have to be shaped 
for their Apotheosis and Man is not exempt from 
the universal law. 

If the embryo of a bird had mind or conscious- 
ness it would feel joy as it grows more definite 
in shape, more like the bird that is to be, but the 
probability is that the intelligence of the embryo 
is not equal to this cognizance. However, the 
larger mind of the biologist, watching through 
his glass the gradual formation of the bird, sees 
what it heralds, knows the ultimate of the unfold- 
ment, is sure of the result. 

There is in Man a larger mind, a higher con- 
sciousness, that sees and waits for the Quicken- 
ing, the finished product, the perfect individual, 
but this larger mind is not always in evidence, 
and when it is not, the smaller, everyday mind 
is appalled by difficulties, troubled by fear, dis- 
turbed by doubt, worn by monotony, and an- 
guished by pain, but under the Creative Hand 
the difficulties, the fear, the doubt, the monotony 
and the pain are all worked in as building mate- 



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rial for the growing form that is to be quickened 
when it is complete. 

I know a number of honest, reliable people 
who have related to me their experience of the 
Quickening, and while differing somewhat in 
details all the experiences were very much alike. 
One in particular appealed to me so strongly 
that I will give it to you for your encouragement. 
The individual saw and touched a three-tongued 
spiritual flame, such as came to the Apostles at 
Pentecost. It was not a hallucination or a vision, 
but the experience of a perfectly wide-awake 
normal person, one not given to trances or psychic 
states. When this flame touched her on the 
temple she heard a voice saying — "This is the 
Healing Power.'' She mentally recognized it 
as such before she was told so by the Spirit, 
for when the flame touched her, electric waves 
quivered through her body, and she was filled 
with vitality as never before. For days after- 
ward she walked as on air, so great was her sense 
of exhilaration and lightness of body. She 
seemed to herself to be all Spirit, and believed 
that she could have walked on water or floated 
in the air. In course of time this exhilaration 
became less intense but she never fell back to 
the old level of heaviness and stolidity, neither 
did her mind ever go back to its old plane which 
was haunted by doubts, anxieties, worries and 
fears. By nature she had a sad, morbid tem- 
perament, apprehensive of the future and given 
to brooding over sorrows of the past. The 
Quickening made of her a new creature, com- 



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pletely metamorphosing her former self into a new 
and powerful being who had lost all her fear of 
what Life held for her, and who seemed to have 
power to mould circumstances to her will. 

She told me that her quickening was long in 
coming, that for years she had struggled on, 
faithful to the Truth as it had been revealed to 
her and trying to express it in every detail of 
her life, but often dismayed and disheartened 
at her failures and her inability to bring health 
to her body. After the Quickening her diseases 
seemed to drop from her, and all things became 
new. She began to live in a higher consciousness 
so that she understood what is meant by being 
"born again." 

Others have had the same experience, so I 
feel justified in asserting that a Quickening and 
a new birth is in store for all who live the Truth. 

Will you not then yield your hearty cooperation 
to this work of growing toward the Quickening, 
and dare to feel courage and hope.^ 

You can trust the universal law and the Quick- 
ening beckons you on. 



VP 




CHAPTER NINE 

THE ONE WILL 

THERE is but One Will in the Universe 
and that Will is good, therefore your 
will being an output of the One Will cannot be 
bad. In itself it is good, but according to the 
direction it takes it seems bad. An automobile 
spinning along on the boulevard seems good, 
but wrecked in the ditch it seems to be bad, 
or at least a derelict. The human derelict is 
styled a sinner, the mechanical one, an irrespon- 
sible wreck. But in either case the poor derelict 
has missed the road and fallen into the ditch. 

Your will is an output of the One Will, bearing 
the same relation to it that the wave of the 
ocean bears to the entire ocean, or the branch of 
the tree bears to the entire tree. The wave is 
essentially one with the whole ocean, the branch 
is essentially one with the whole tree, and your 
will is essentially one with the whole Will. You 
can easily understand this to be true of the ocean 
or the tree, but it is not so apparent with the 
Will. 

This is because the individual is a sort of storage 
battery, appropriating a certain amount of force, 
storing and using that amount until it is exhausted, 



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and then appropriating, storing and using more, 
so that while busied with its limited store it is 
not conscious of the whole, of which its store is 
but a fraction. 

With the physical eye we see the entire tree 
and its connection with the branch, and we see 
enough of the ocean to imagine its entirety and 
connect it with the wave, but with the inner eye 
we do not at first perceive the whole of that 
hidden force, the Will, and therefore we do not 
realize its connection with the individual will. 

But when it is brought to our attention that 
such a Wholeness or Unity of Will exists, then, 
while looking at a portion of the One Will, which 
we recognize as our individual portion, the mind 
sees dimly, symbolically, the Whole Will, some- 
thing as the physical eye, when gazing directly 
at some object, sees dimly and indirectly the 
surrounding objects that impinge upon the fringe 
of vision. 

There is an abnormal state of the physical 
eye in which the sight narrows and can see only 
the point where it centres its vision, all else 
being excluded, and this same abnormal state 
of the inner eye prevails when that portion of. 
the Will which you call your will is only present 
to your perception. The more abnormal your 
inner sight, the smaller your will seems. 

At such times your inner eye is sick, weak 
and imperfect, so that it cannot see what really 
is, that which is present with you, and there for 
you to see, but shut away from your vision be- 
cause you are ajfflicted with mental astigmatism. 



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There is one very curious thing about this 
inner seeing and that is it is transmissible. There 
is a transference of sight from mind to mind. 
For instance, if I see something clearly I can 
transmit my seeing to your mind so that you can 
see what I see with my inner eye. If I see the 
Whole Will, and see my will or your will as one 
with it, and invested with its power, I can impress 
that picture upon your mind and you will see 
what I see. If I give my impression to you in 
writing, you will at once look through and beyond 
the writing to my thought-picture, which will 
then stand out vividly in your consciousness. 
I can convey to you the vision that is mine. 
It is not mine to secrete but to pass on to other 
minds as a part of the sacred Flame of Truth. 
This is the secret of New Thought Healing, 
the transference of spiritual vision. The healer 
transmits to the patient's mind a mental picture 
of spiritual Truth, and that mental picture is 
a receptacle into which the healing current flows 
straight from its God-Fountain. As I have said 
before it is not the healer who really heals the 
patient — he but opens the way — and yet his 
mediation is essential where the patient is unable 
to open the way for himself. 

If you would increase the power of your will 
you must see it as one with the Whole Will, and 
as continually flowing from it, through you, as 
an outlet of universal force. You may imprison 
it for a time within yourself, but if you do not 
ultimately send it out, it ceases to be power, 
and like a drop of the ocean, left alone on the 



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beach, it passes into the ether and is no more. 
If you hoard it as you would a small store of 
something that you feared to lose, it will ooze 
away from you and leave you weak in purpose 
and action. 

If you get the idea that your will is bad and 
its exercise a sin, that the personal will is some- 
thing to be crushed, then your inner sight is 
diseased and defective, and your inference illogi- 
cal, for to crush the will involves an exercise of 
will to do the crushing, and the spectacle of will 
crushing itself out of existence, and remaining 
a victor in the field after it has crushed itself, 
is an unthinkable proposition. It is equivalent 
to saying that you have destroyed yourself and 
yet still exist. 

The very impossibility of the conception proves 
that Will is an Essential to Life and Being, and 
being an Essential, its destruction is inconceiv- 
able. Herbert Spencer's argument for the in- 
destructibility of Matter is that you cannot think 
it out of existence. You can think of it as passing 
into other forms, but you cannot think of it as 
utterly destroyed. The same argument would 
hold good concerning the Will. 

Schopenhauer held that the entire Universe is 
projected into space by Will and Idea, which 
I suppose is equivalent to saying it is projected 
by Energy and Thought, Will standing for the 
Energy that projects and Idea for the shape or 
Thought-Form assumed by the projective Energy. 
Every object in Creation is put forth into exist- 
ence by effort of this One AVill and the will of the 



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individual is never separated from the One 
Will. 

There are apparently separate wills because 
objects are externally separated from each other, 
but the Will is not subject to the laws that meas- 
ure material substance and divide it into parts. 
On the vast ocean of Will you rise as a wave on 
one part of its surface while I rise as another 
wave on another part of its surface. You may 
be in London and I in Washington, but the omni- 
present Will joins us as one. Your wave may 
move to the North and mine to the South, or yours 
to the East and mine to the West, but we both 
are one with the ocean of Will. 

The whole force of the Universe is conserved 
in the One Will. Its energy as a whole is never 
increased, never diminished, always the same in 
its entirety, though its individual demonstrations 
differ, now manifesting great power, now little, 
as the case may be. 

The Will is constructive except at times when 
it destroys for the purpose of building a better 
structure. Nature's effort in Evolution is to 
bring all beings to the highest expression possible, 
and the energy that backs and sustains this effort 
is the Universal Will; hence it is good and we 
can trust it to work out our highest ideals and 
aspirations. 

Weakness and disease mark a falling away 
from the Ideal, but in this falling away we 
are led to a knowledge of the laws of health, 
and learn the possibility of repair and recon- 
struction. 



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The wisdom, the breadth of experience and the 
depth of sympathy that should come with the 
passing of the years are wonderful and beauti- 
ful marks of age. Not so are the broken-down 
tissues, the sickness and decrepitude. It is pos- 
sible, so the New Thought teaches, to acquire the 
beautiful marks and to obliterate the unlovely 
ones by a proper direction of the Will. 

I may know what is ideal, and yet not will to 
express it in my life. In that case my knowledge 
does not tend to beauty of expression in my 
mind and body. I may know that certain thoughts 
are corrosive and generate poison in my body, 
and yet I may will to hold such thoughts as the 
years roll over me, in which event my will is 
my destroyer. With all the knowledge of Truth 
that it is possible to gain, one cannot renew or 
re-create himself to the ideal without using his 
will. It is either his Savior or his Destroyer. 

You can use the will to good effect with very 
little knowledge, because there is within you an 
intuitive perception of what is good for you and 
what is not. You know by the effect of certain 
thoughts and feelings that they are injurious to 
you. You know it is not well for you to indulge 
in spells of depression, of resentment, of envy, 
anger, anxiety, fear, etc., and you may prefer 
not to have such thoughts, yet it seems you 
cannot arouse will enough to expel them. You 
try once, twice or three times to put out the nox- 
ious intruders, and perhaps you succeed for the 
instant, but back they come trooping, and more 
"devils" with them, like the unclean spirit of 



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old. Then you are quite discouraged and struggle 
no more. 

You would not thus succumb if you knew what 
a mighty power is at your back, even the whole 
Will of the Universe, every bit of it. It is the 
old mistaken idea of the separate will that para- 
lyzes your effort and makes you think you have 
used up all your force when you have not. 

Think about your oneness with the Universal 
Will, the Moving Power of the Universe, the next 
time you get discouraged, and see how quickly 
your own will springs up refreshed and reinforced. 
It will amaze you with what it can do. 

Have you reached the place where you reach 
out for something that will renew your mind, your 
health and your life in general.^ If so that 
reaching out is a movement of the will. It is at 
work for you. Keep it moving. Keep your 
automobile on the highway. Charge it with 
more power. When one charge is used up put 
in another and push ahead. Use your intelli- 
gence to keep it out of the ditch and you will 
happily proceed to the place where you would 

go. 

The exercise of will is a pleasure in itself, even 
when it moves to difficult accomplishment. The 
finest and best endeavor of the will lies not in 
the subjugation of others, but in the control of 
self and of circumstances. The will unifies, 
adjusts, and regulates many conflicting elements 
into one harmonious, beautiful whole, obedient 
to a high, dominant idea. 

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can be harmonious and perfect until all its parts 
serve one dominant idea. 

In perfecting the human organism, both in 
mind and body, this law is regnant. There 
must be a ruling Ideal, and the oflBce of the Will 
is to bring all thoughts, desires and purposes 
under this dominant Ideal. Until this is accom- 
plished the house is divided against itself, there 
is contention and discord in the organism, lack 
of peace in the mind, and in consequence, pain 
and disease in the flesh. 

While the Will cannot crush itself out of exist- 
ence, it can use one part of itself against another 
part, one part desiring to follow one course and 
the other part desiring to follow the opposite 
course. One of these two courses is in accord 
with the Ideal, and the other is not. The better 
course does not look attractive at the start, 
and it requires a decided effort of the Will to 
follow it. This is good for the individual, for 
with the exercise of the Will force is called forth, 
intensifying the life. 

To have more life is to move upward and away 
from weakness and disease. Therefore to under- 
stand the use of the will and to see its oneness 
with the Universal Will, to set it in operation in 
obedience to the highest and best that we know, 
is to find renewal of Life, Health, Youth and 
general Happiness. 

In nervous prostration one loses interest in 
all things, desiring nothing, caring for nothing, 
doing nothing, and all this indicates a lessening 
in the activity of the will. But underneath this 



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non-caring, non-desiring, non-doing state, there 
is really a desire to be lifted out of a condition 
that may well be defined as a living death. This 
desire is a faint stirring of the will, and should 
be encouraged in every way possible. If the 
sufferer can be induced to use the will a little 
every day in the effort to banish from the mind 
depressing thoughts and also to overcome the 
tendency to rehearse his troubles to every sym- 
pathetic ear, he will take the first step from dark- 
ness into light. 

All troubles, whether mental or physical, grow 
and increase as you dwell upon them in thought, 
for you thus create a mental atmosphere in which 
diseased conditions thrive like noxious weeds. 
The only safe course is to uproot and cast out 
diseased thoughts, so as to give healthy thoughts 
a chance in the mental soil. 

Have you not many times found your fears 
groundless and your apprehensions worse than 
the thing apprehended, when it came to pass.^ 
And then, did it not seem foolish to have lain 
awake nights worrying about the future, and 
tearing down tissue cells with your gloomy fears 
and forebodings.^ 

And are you going to keep up this useless and 
harmful habit until your bodily health is un- 
dermined, your thought Aura unwholesome and 
repellent, and your face deeply lined with ugly 
furrows of anxiety.^ Are you going to do this? 
Or are you going to stop it now, and begin to use 
your will as a saving factor.^ 

Why not say to yourself — ''My will is one with 



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the Universal Will, the Energy that upholds 
the world. By this Will all things are created; 
therefore I can use it to get rid of the conditions 
I deplore, and replace them with Health, Beauty, 
Intelligence, Genius, Prosperity and unlimited 
Achievement. I will use my will to these ends, 
and to the educated and active Will all things 
beautiful and glorious are possible. I will never 
forget that my will is backed by the Universal 
Will, that reservoir of Inexhaustible Energy. 

"I will waste no more time in vain complaints 
and regrets, but instead use the Creative Will 
to give me what I desire/' 




CHAPTER TEN 

TAPPING HIGHER LEVELS OF ENERGY 

SOME years ago I was greatly impressed 
by an article written by Professor William 
James of Harvard University in which he made 
some astonishing statements regarding the pos- 
sible renewal of Energy. In the article he used 
the term ''Second Wind" to denote a phenomenon 
in Psychology, indicating a psychic law. 

You may know that it often happens in ath- 
letic sports that a contestant will be prostrated 
by fatigue, even to the point of acute distress. 
The breath will come in short, painful gasps and 
the physical state be one of utter exhaustion, 
but let a sudden excitement occur, such for in- 
stance as the cheering given to another contes- 
tant, and a strange thing sometimes happens. 
The exhausted man will get his second wind, and 
this second wind will be better than the first, 
for it is a great spurt of energy and usually 
means victory. 

After due observation of this phenomenon 
Professor James came to the conclusion that not 
only is a second wind possible, but a third, a 
fourth, or even more. 

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what I have long believed, that Man is the 
possessor of unlimited power. Beyond the fatigue 
limit, where one seems completely spent, there 
are higher levels of energy waiting to be tapped, 
and what is needed to tap them is the sharply 
pressing edge of a persistent purpose, the mental 

act of PUSHING ON. 

Right here let me enter a word of caution. 
I would not advise you to push beyond the 
fatigue point physically until you are prepared 
for it mentally, for if you do there is danger of 
utter collapse or even death. You must first 
become fully convinced that you can tap higher 
levels of Energy. There must first be the men- 
tal ACT of PUSHING ON, and it must be made 
a habit before you can safely try the physical 
PUSH beyond the fatigue point. You must es- 
tablish within yourself a steady, unconquerable 
purpose to push on. 

Professor James enumerates the various excite- 
ments that produce the second wind, and I notice 
they are in the ultimate either thoughts or emo- 
tions. He also explains that there need be no 
external excitement, that the determination to 
push on is often quite sufficient. I will quote his 
exact words in this connection: 

"On usual occasions we make a practice of 
stopping an occupation as soon as we meet the 
first effective layer, so to call it, of fatigue. We 
have then walked, played or worked enough, 
so we desist. That amount of fatigue is an 
efficacious obstruction on this side of which our 
usual life is cast. But if an unusual necessity 



108 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

forces us to press onward, a surprising thing occurs. 
The fatigue gets worse up to a certain, critical 
point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away 
and we are fresher than before. We have evi- 
dently tapped a level of new energy, masked 
until then by the fatigue obstacle usually obeyed. 
There may be layer after layer of this experience. 
A third or fourth wind may supervene. Mental 
activity shows this phenomenon as well as physi- 
cal, and in exceptional cases we may find beyond 
the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts 
of ease and power that we never dreamed our- 
selves to own, sources of strength habitually 
not taxed at all, because habitually we never 
push through the obstruction, never pass those 
early critical points." 

The fact is, we use up one layer of energy and 
think that is all we have at command. We 
believe ourselves exhausted because we do not 
know of the other layers to be tapped by us at 
will. 

Whatever goal we have in view, whether it be 
health, or some other ultimate of human endeavor, 
we are too apt to let the fatigue obstacle "knock us 
out," though level upon level of higher energy 
be waiting to be tapped when we push mentally 
beyond the fatigue point. Note that I say men- 
tally, not PHYSICALLY Until you are prepared 

MENTALLY. 

To be prepared mentally is to be absolutely sure 
of your one-ness with Universal Energy, or God- 
Substance. To be equally sure that you are 
flowing forth as a stream of life from that Sub- 



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stance into the outer world continually. To be 
also sure that you can tap, or release within 
yourself more energy when one store of it is 
exhausted. 

You may be so exhausted physically that to 
move a muscle seems impossible, or you may be 
exhausted mentally and in the bitter pangs of 
despair, but the persistent will to push on will 
tap the higher level of energy, yielding the glo- 
rious ''Second Wind" and turning life into a song 
of triumph. 

If you are sick the energy to combat disease 
has run low and you need to tap a higher spiritual 
level. Then the disease will be routed and the 
machinery of your body will run smoothly, with- 
out clog or hindrance. 

If your trouble be a matter of adversity, of 
disappointment, of what we call hard luck, the 
same rule holds good. You have merely reached 
your fatigue obstacle, and the more distress you 
feel, the nearer you are to your ''Second Wind." 
Now is the time of all times for you to achieve 
success by tapping a higher level of energy. 
Now is your great opportunity. Do not 
give up on the eve of victory, push on. 

The physiologist will tell you that the body 
is bound by certain laws, that its strength cannot 
exceed the quality of its muscle and the nerve 
stimulus. Why is it then that a small puny 
hypnotic subject can perform Herculean feats 
of strength when under the power of hypnotic 
suggestion.^ The same physiologist will toll you 
that while a second, third or fourth wind may be 



110 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

possible, still there is a final fatigue limit beyond 
which bodily effort cannot pass. I deny this on 
general principles for it is not borne out by facts 
and living experience, and because I see with the 
the eye of the Psychologist, which sees powers un- 
known to the Physiologist. Psychology is sweep- 
ing away the old limits of Physiology, and this 
is shown by experiments in Hypnotism. I do 
not indorse Hypnotism as a curative agent, but 
I credit it with adding greatly to our knowl- 
edge of many hitherto undiscovered powers, and 
with showing the horizon of the Impossible as 
ever receding when we advance upon it. Let 
your limit line of belief, separating the possible 
from the impossible, be to you like the horizon 
line, which is really no line at all. It is merely 
where your sight stops, and depends upon the 
point where you stand. Advance and your 
horizon moves with you, showing a beyond not 
before visible. 

Some one else may tell you that your ideals 
are impossible to realize. This I also deny, for 
I know beyond all doubt that nothing is impos- 
sible that your mind can fashion or your heart 
long for. The impossible is only that which you 
fail to reach by stopping at the fatigue point 
because your mind is weary of waiting and hoping 
and stops short of the ''Second Wind." 

Simply to know that higher levels of energy 
exist and can be tapped will stimulate you to go 
on and tap them. That has been my experience, 
and from what I know of universal human char- 
acteristics I judge it will be your experience also. 



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Physical pain is sometimes the means whereby 
we are pushed on to tap higher energy levels. 
Evolution, though always kind, is often appar- 
ently cruel, driving us out of certain conditions 
with the lash, as horses are driven from a burning 
stable, administering the lesser pain that the 
greater pain may be escaped. 

A physician in Washington told me of a patient 
of his who was confined to her bed and seemingly 
unable to leave it, though for no organic dis- 
ability that he could discover. Every organ 
was normal and functioning properly, but still 
the patient was bedridden. After exhausting all 
remedial measures at his command the doctor 
determined on a psychological treatment, and 
a severe one at that the setting fire to her bed. 
The woman did not stir until a leaping tongue 
of flame scorched her hand, when, with a shriek 
of terror, she sprang from her bed and fled from 
the room. The cure was not only for the moment, 
but was permanent. 

We all, more or less, fall into lethargic states 
where ideals fail to rouse us to action, and it is 
then that pain, with stinging lash, drives us from 
our lethargy, the lethargy that leads to death. 
We flee our burning beds in the anguish of fear, 
but in that fleeing we find renewal of life, of energy, 
of hope and of joy. 

We of the New Thought can tap higher levels 
of energy by putting into practice the principles 
in which we believe. We know we are actually 
one with the Eternal Energy, even as the raj^ is 
one with the sun. Therefore the Eternal Energy 



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is ours to manifest. It could not be otherwise. 
The ray is of sun substance and manifests the 
sun. 

Naturally we cannot use the whole of the 
Eternal Energy at once, for that would be out of 
proportion to our needs. We do not want an 
avalanche of power, but just enough for our pur- 
pose at the moment. 

To use a homely illustration — We are like 
pipes or channels that convey Energy from its 
Divine Centre to its Human Circumference. 
Pipes limit or narrow Energy to their own capac- 
ity, but in so narrowing they focus it to definite 
use. Electricity floating freely in space cannot 
light our houses, run our cars, or turn the wheels 
of the world's activity. To do this it must be 
narrowed, focussed or confined to the limits of 
a tiny wire. 

In our inner, spiritual selves we are this very 
Energy itself, and like the electricity floating 
freely in space, while our outer, functioning 
selves may be compared to pipes or wires or 
conductors of Energy. 

Remember this distinction, for it is very im- 
portant. It is as though the ray said to the sun 
— ''I am with you at the Centre of Substance, 
but I go forth from that Substance into the 
activities of light and heat." 

At first we tap Energy at a low level, then at 
higher and higher levels, as we rise to higher planes 
of thinking and living. It is, therefore, true 
that at present we cannot form an adequate 
conception of the great and wonderful achieve- 



MADE PLAIN 113 

ment we shall make as we ascend the scale of 
Being. It is an endless progression to better 
states. 

A Second Wind may come to you in various 
ways, but never without the push or endeavor 
of your own mind, backed by the Spirit. That 
push is never so effective as when you press 
against an obstruction, against ill health, adversity 
and unhappy environment. Right there you meet 
your fatigue obstacle which is really the source 
of the Second Wind, for it is only by means of 
overcoming great obstacles that you get the 
Second Wind. 

As I have just said, a Second Wind may come 
to you in various ways. It may, for instance, 
come in a sudden, inexplicable betterment in 
your affairs, or in your health, or in your peace 
of mind, or in your energy of accomplishment. 
Your world may have been upside down and in 
chaos, when suddenly everything will be righted, 
and just as you have desired it to be. This is 
an exact result of your mental push, instead 
of the streak of good luck you are inclined to 
call it. That mental push has tapped an en- 
ergy level and in consequence a Second Wind 
has blown over your world, turning it right side 
up. I mention this because otherwise you might 
not recognize the event as attributable to a Sec- 
ond Wind. You will understand better how this 
can be when you realize that a Second Wind is 
a spiritual power or influence, acting intelligently 
for Humanity, when Humanity obeys its law. 

So I find that you are really a Giant in chains. 



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A Giant in your Godhood, but bound by chains 
of mistaken belief. You are self-hypnotized into 
ideas of limitation. You are self -hypnotized into 
a belief in your separateness from God. Your 
state may be compared to a dream in which 
you try to move and cannot; a waking dream, 
similar to those you have in sleep. The giant 
Gulliver, when bound by the fragile cords of the 
Lilliputians, could easily have broken his bonds, 
but imagining himself held by them he made 
no effort to free himself. That is exactly your 
state. 

Do you realize what it means to be a Ray 
flowing forth from the Divine Energy .^^ No, 
of course you do not, for if you did you would 
know you could break your chains, and would 
no longer be held by them. 

You will never be entirely healed of your 
disease and weakness until you learn your power. 
When I say you are self-hypnotized into ideas 
of limitation, I will explain what I mean by 
calling your attention to the state of one who is 
hypnotized by another mind to think he cannot 
open his eyes when they are closed, or move hand 
or foot. He is practically paralyzed by the 
effect of the other mind acting upon him, so that 
he really cannot open his eyes or move hand or 
foot. Until the impression is removed from his 
mind he remains paralyzed although his nerves 
and muscles are capable of perfect action. 

In something such a manner do the false beliefs 
of the world impress the individual mind, and 
New Thought Healing is the removing of the 



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false impression or belief, thus setting free the 
Giant who is enchained. 

It will be a helpful thought for you to picture 
yourself as a Giant in chains, for that is what you 
are in reality, and your apparently heavy chains 
are but cobwebs compared with your strength 
to break them when the Giant within you comes 
into a knowledge of itself and its God-Power. 
You may clothe the thought, if you will, in the 
following simple words: 

/ am a Giant in chains, hut my chains are only 
cobwebs. All power is mine because of my God- 
hood. I flow forth from God continually as the ray 
flows forth from the sun, and as the ray carries 
with it the Sun-Energy, so do I carry with me 
the God-Energy. 

Your tired muscles are tired because of your 
false belief concerning yourself, a belief that just 
so much energy and no more is given you, whereas, 
in very truth there is a continual flow of energy 
through your muscles, did you but realize the 
truth about yourself. You cannot realize this 
truth at once, and until you do so, sleep and rest 
are essentials in your life, as periods for gathering 
and storing new energy. The reason you find 
sleep reinvigorating is because then the Conscious 
Mind releases its grip on the Subconscious and 
allows it to follow its natural bent, which is to 
open itself to the God-Energy and let it flow 
in without clog or hindrance. 

As we grow more and more into the Truth of 
Being we do not tire as formerly and we require 



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less sleep. We do not step into new and better 
conditions on the instant, but grow toward them 
imperceptibly, until, all at once, comes the Quick- 
ening, as is the case with all embryonic growth, 
and the Quickening is followed by the New 
Birth into a higher, stronger life on this earth 
and in this body. 

Sometimes a release of power comes suddenly, 
as in the case of a man who was so crippled 
by rheumatism that he was practically helpless. 
He had to be dressed and undressed, and even 
fed, for he could not use his hands. One Sunday 
evening the entire family went to church, after 
undressing and putting to bed this apparently 
helpless man. The house caught fire during their 
absence, and no one responded to his cries for 
help. Higher and higher crept the flames, and 
more intense became the terror of the poor man, 
until, with a sudden influx of power, he leaped 
from the bed, dragged everything out of the 
bureau drawers, and filling a sheet with his be- 
longings, he shouldered the great bundle and ran 
downstairs into the street. 

His muscles had been held in the belief of 
rheumatism, but when his mind was filled to 
overflowing with fear of the fire, the belief in 
rheumatism was crowded out and found not a 
nook or a corner to lurk in. The chains of belief 
were broken and the Giant set free. The chains 
were essentially mental, as you see, and they 
were broken by thought. The man thought he 
would be burned to death unless he managed to 
get out of the burning house, and the thought 



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of escape flooded his muscles with the energy to 
act. 

I gave a similar incident earlier in this chapter, 
but the two cases differed in that the first was 
a mental paralysis, while the second was a phys- 
ical affection, but both yielded to the power of 
thought. 

Evolution is working with you to unchain the 
Giant within. The chains are weakening in 
places, and will finally give way. 

Is it harder to believe that you have a Giant 
within you than to believe that in a tiny acorn 
lies hidden the mighty oak, giant of the forest? 
Given the right conditions and the oak breaks 
through its bonds, the Giant breaks its chains. 

The real, spiritual Man that is made in the 
Image of God is the Giant within. It is Man 
before his fall into Matter and the illusions 
attendant upon Matter. The processes of In- 
volution and Evolution demand that this Giant 
Man shall become entangled in the illusions of 
Matter, even as the oak is imprisoned in the 
acorn. The Giant must be bound hand and 
foot by its chains up to a certain time, and shall 
then set to work to free itself. This is for some 
reason a necessary experience. The why and 
wherefore is still largely unknown to us. We 
only know such to be the process. We do not 
know why a seed has to germinate under the 
burden of the dark earth, instead of in the light 
and air, but our lack of knowledge in this respect 
does not hinder or alter the fact. 

What we do know is that such is the law, and 



118 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

we act in conformity with it, placing our seeds 
in the ground with faith that it is the right thing 
to do, and getting our results. 

All manifestations of unusual strength or of 
hitherto unknown powers such as healing the 
sick, great genius in literature, art or invention, 
come from the Giant within, who has for the 
moment slipped his bonds and is extending his 
fore-arm into the world as a prophecy of fuller 
manifestation in the future. 

Trials and difficulties in your path are not lions 
seeking to devour you, but kindly angels coming 
to wrestle with you in order to leave you a bless- 
ing. They bear a friendly challenge to the Giant 
within to come forth and try his strength. 

The Second Wind is the breath of the Giant 
within, the breath of the Spirit. 




CHAPTER ELEVEN 

FIRST AIDS TO HEALING 

YOU cannot learn to heal by the use of set 
rule or formula, for the healing power only 
comes to those who lift the thought to a higher 
state of consciousness. One of the first aids is 
a realization of 

The Mobility of Matter. 

You must convince yourself that Matter is 
mobile and plastic to the motion of Spirit. Occult- 
ists have always believed in the mobility of 
Matter, and now Physical Science is confirming 
that belief. It has shown us that Matter when 
reduced to its ultimate is an aggregation or 
assemblage of "electrons" or ''ions" that are 
particles so small, so electric as to be infinitely 
plastic. These "electrons" or "ions" combine 
to form atoms or molecules, and are always in 
a whirl of vorticular motion. 

A mass of stone, though apparently fixed and 
solid, is really in constant agitation within itself, 
this agitation being caused by the vorticular 
whirl of its constituent particles. Not perceiving 
this motion we think of the stone as a solid mass 
of inanimate Matter. 



120 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

There never was a greater misconception. 
Dr. Paul Gibier, of the Pasteur Institute, very 
truly says: ''We are unceasingly deceived by 
general appearances. And thus, knowing as we 
do the imperfection and unreliability of our 
senses, we may advance as a manner of axiom 
that the strongest illusion is what we call 
reality." 

Dr. Gibier, of course, does not mean Reality 
itself, but what is called reality and which de- 
pends upon the testimony of the senses. If, 
instead of the sensory illusion, we could see the 
actual state of the stone, the constant agitation, 
the vorticular whirl, we should know that its 
electrons in their activity are closely related to 
the vibrations of Mind in their fineness and 
subtlety of motion, and we should not feel it 
impossible to affect even a stone by the action 
upon it of Mind. Then, seeing this truth con- 
cerning Matter and Mind, we should know for 
a certainty that Mind can change the electrons 
of the body, even to its bone structure, for bone 
has greater plasticity than a stone. 

God manifests His Spirit on this earth through 
Matter, and is only knowable to us in terms of 
TIME and SPACE. Thoughts have form and are 
therefore Matter, for Spirit itself has no form, 
though it ensouls forms. Spirit organizes Matter 
in forms both high and low. Thoughts are high 
forms of Matter and dominate the lower forms. 

As we call more Spirit into manifestation in 
our thoughts the greater becomes our control 
over material things. It was thus that Jesus 



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walked upon the water, healed the sick, raised 
the dead, turned water into wine and stilled 
the tempest. It was thus he performed all his 
miracles. 

Man has learned how to cause Matter to act 
upon Matter by mechanical means, but he is now 
learning a higher law by which Spirit acts through 
Mind directly upon Matter without mechanical 
intervention, changing its shape, annulling its 
destructiveness, increasing its constructiveness, 
and making it altogether obedient to spiritual 
mandate. 

Many strange things are happening to rev- 
olutionize our false beliefs regarding Matter. 
Some time ago a young machinist in Massachu- 
setts attracted the notice of scientific men, among 
them the late Professor James of Harvard Uni- 
versity, by some remarkable feats such as bath- 
ing his face, hands and arms in blazing alcohol, 
without raising a blister or suffering the least 
discomfort. 

He also dematerialized his body and became 
invisible to those in the room with him for about 
forty seconds. Those who watched him said he 
seemed to dissolve in air until entirely invisible, 
afterward returning to his natural form. These 
tests were made under the strictest conditions 
so as to guard against mistake or fraud. The 
young man seemed to be in a passive state and 
said he thought of nothing in particular. This 
would indicate that he used no conscious control 
over Matter, and the probability is that a Sub- 
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itself, independently of conscious volition, for 
the purpose of challenging the attention of the 
world and stirring it to learn the law regulating 
the phenomenon, which, if true, and it is well 
vouched for, opens to us a wide range of per- 
spective. 

Matter, thus viewed, does not present the im- 
pregnable front that too often dismays the New 
Thought healer, for, like the walls of Jericho 
it is ready to crumble at the trumpet call of the 
New Thought Prophet — Always is Matter jplas- 
tic and Spirit compelling. 

Another aid to healing is — 

The Magical Power of Sleep. 

Magic is not an uncanny or unnatural thing. 
It is but an activity based on a law not generally 
understood. The magical power of sleep is due 
to a law of the Subconscious Mind, by which it 
works out the suggestions given to it by the 
Conscious Mind, and does this most effectually 
during sleep, for reasons which I will explain 
later. 

A great engine can be set moving by a finger 
touch on a controlling lever. The Subconscious 
is like the engine and the Conscious is like the 
finger touch on the lever, giving impulse to action. 
This impulse in itself seems slight and insignifi- 
cant, but it is most important, and even actually 
necessary to start the desired motion, whether 
in the engine or in the Subconscious, and it is 
the direct cause of the motion and its results. 

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in sleep, due to the impulse given by the Conscious 
to the Subconscious. It is a fact known to 
Psychology that suggestions can be so given to 
the Subconscious as to be executed by it in 
minutest detail. Suggestions for health, sugges- 
tions for success and prosperity, and suggestions 
for happiness, can all be made to the Subcon- 
scious, and by it be actualized in the life of the 
person for whom they are made. You can, 
in this way, help yourself and others to actualize 
what you desire for yourself or for them. 

In giving these suggestions to yourself, a process 
which is called auto-suggestion, you should make 
them just before sleep, and even if you fall asleep 
before finishing your suggestion, so much the 
better, for the Subconscious can pick up half 
a suggestion and act upon it, so great is its in- 
telligence. 

The reason that the Subconscious acts more 
powerfully while you sleep is because it is not 
then hampered and hindered by the doubts of 
the Conscious Mind, for doubt is the arch 

ENEMY TO SUCCESS in REALIZATION. 

A very good suggestion to make to the Sub- 
conscious is the following: 

I desire to be convinced of my oneness ivith 
God-Substance, and to know that I continually 
proceed from it in a stream of life, and knowing 
this, I desire to be free from fear, free from icorry, 
free from anxiety, free from depression, that my 
days may be serene and happy, I desire an ever 
increasing realization of strength and mastery, so 



124 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

that whatever trials come to me, I may look down 
upon them from spiritual heights, knowing that I 
have power to control or alter them. 

Any other desires you may have, put them in 
your own simple words and give them to the Sub- 
conscious to work out for you, as you would place 
a seed in the ground and leave it to Nature to 
germinate. You can only place it in the ground. 
You cannot cause the seed to open and push 
upward. That is beyond your personal effort. 
So is it with the suggestion seeds which you 
plant in the Subconscious. 

Another first aid to healing lies in the under- 
standing of 

Imperceptible Motion. 

Students and patients are often discouraged 
because they do not for a time perceive any 
good effects from study or treatment. They 
should then be encouraged by learning a few 
facts connected with imperceptible motion. 
They should be reminded of the constant mo- 
tion in our bodies of which we are unaware. 
What, for instance, do we know of the swift 
coursing of the blood through veins and arter- 
ies.^ What do we know of the constant activ- 
ity in building bodily tissues.^ Cells are being 
torn down and new ones built, but this is im- 
perceptible to us. What do we know of the 
digestive process? except for the unpleasant sen- 
sation of slow digestion, and that is not so much 
an activity as its cessation. Many of the bodily 
motions might be completely revolutionized with- 



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out our knowledge, until later when we noted 
an improvement in health. 

Patients sometimes stop treatment while all 
this wonderful recuperative activity is going 
on within imperceptibly, and when the treatment 
is thus stopped the outer result is never made 
manifest, and the patient mistakenly thinks the 
treatment has had no effect, whereas it has had 
an effect, but only interiorly. 

The action of thought is imperceptible; hence 
it is hard for us to realize it to be a force. In 
the immense tract of the Subconscious there is 
always motion that is imperceptible. We do not 
see and feel thought when it goes forth to bring 
to us our own, or perform its mission of healing, 
and there are great powers working within us of 
which the Conscious Mind is unaware. 

We stand upon an apparently quiet and sta- 
tionary earth, and yet we are flying through 
space with incredible speed, turning somersaults 
the while, but this motion is to us imperceptible. 
Do you then find it difficult to believe that other 
motion may be equally imperceptible, and that 
the appearance of inaction may be as illusive as 
that of the earth appearing stationary.^ 

When you are inclined to feel discouraged, 
remember that your conscious thought controls 
the imperceptible motion in your body. De- 
pression and discouragement have a bad effect 
upon this motion, while hope and courage have 
a good effect and stimulate recuperation. 

I will repeat here for your encouragement some- 
thing that I alluded to in a previous chapter. 



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Professor Bose of the University of Calcutta, 
in experimenting in plant life, constructed an 
ingenious instrument by which he could measure 
their growth, though the process, as you know, 
is imperceptible to the eye. We notice that a 
plant has grown, but we do not see it in the act 
of growing^ because the extension is so infinitesi- 
mal at the instant as to be beyond our perception. 
But, as I said. Professor Bose succeeded in get- 
ting a measurement by means of the instrument 
he made for the purpose, and this is what he 
discovered. 

A plant grows upward for five seconds^ and 
then shrinks downward for five seconds. Then 
it remains motionless for ten seconds, after which 
it starts upward again and repeats the process 
just described. 

In shrinking downward its motion is slower 
than in pushing upward, and therefore in the five 
seconds of shrinkage it does not go clear down to 
the point it started from. If it did, of course, 
there would be no increase in height. At each 
upward push it gains something over the amount 
of shrinkage, and this gain constitutes the exact 
measure of its growth at the end of twenty seconds 
given to pushing upward, shrinking downward 
and remaining motionless. All of this motion 
is imperceptible to us, and yet, after a time we 
say, ''How that plant has grown!" 

We have always supposed that plants grew 
right on upward, never dreaming that they shrank 
downward and even stopped growing entirely, for 
a while, and yet we might have known the truth 



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about their manner of growth had we reasoned 
on the line of general principles, for we know the 
Law of Rhythm regulates all motion, therefore 
the motion of growth cannot escape it. 

I discovered long ago the operation of this law 
in mental and spiritual growth, and mentioned it 
in my writings, saying that the healing thought 
drew the atoms of a patient's body into a new 
adjustment, and then the inertia of atoms drew 
them back into their former unhealthy adjustment. 
Then, if the treatment were continued, the heal- 
ing thought pulled the atoms back again into the 
position of health, and again the inertia drew 
them into the state of degeneration and disease. 
But, finally, if the treatment went on, the swing 
toward health became so compelling and strong 
that it conquered the tendency to pull back into 
negative conditions. I knew this to be true, 
and now I find confirmation in the research of 
physical science. 

Please observe that the effortless period with 
the plant lasts as long as its upward push and 
downward pull taken together. Also notice that 
the plant spends three times the number of sec- 
onds in shrinking downward and remaining sta- 
tionary that it gives to upward pushing. In 
all twenty seconds are given to one round and 
only five seconds of that time are given to the 
upward push. If your time of slipping back 
and of inaction should seem long to you, the 
plant has the same, and yet, in spite of this it 
grows upward and so will you. 

When I say, — "You will grow upw^ard," — I 



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mean you will push your way mentally up into 
planes of Being that are high and positive to 
weakness and disease, and in that way you will 
outgrow them; that is, you will grow above them. 

The plant does not know enough to reason and 
doubt and worry about its manner of growing. 
It simply obeys the law unconsciously, and in 
so doing it gains and grows in the face of set- 
backs and stoppages. 

Man is now in the era of conscious growth and 
can promote or hinder his advance by the nature 
and manner of his thought. He is fast learning 
the law of growth, and beginning to use it to 
accelerate his progress. 

As he learns more of this law he will see that 
shrinking downward from accomplishment does 
not mean that he will not reach his aim ulti- 
mately. Neither does a long spell of "doing 
nothing" or ''getting nowhere" invalidate the 
final beneficent outcome. If, instead of convert- 
ing such times into spells of depression and dis- 
couragement, he will regard them as times of 
"storing energy," he will know them for what 
they really are, and increase his receptivity to 
the infiux of energy, and be able to do all the 
more because of the motionless period. 

Another first aid to healing is: 

The Mighty Logos. 

This stands for the Spoken Word. The Cre- 
ative Vibration which the New Thought teaches 
you is a wonderful Power, making for your ad- 
vancement in health, happiness and wellbeing. 



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By means of the Word, God creates. Long 
before the human race came into existence God 
spoke through the Elohim who were high spiritual 
beings, saying, "Let there be Hght!" and light 
sprang into existence. The Elohim acted as the 
Logos, speaking the Word directly to primeval 
Matter and the Word was creative. It acted 
on Matter and produced light. So, today, is 
your Word creative. Matter is now as it was of 
old, obedient to the Word, even as plastic wax 
to its vibrations. 

Be assured of this when speaking the Word 
of Health to atoms that are out of adjustment 
in the body, and know that because of their law- 
enforced obedience to the Logos, they must as- 
sume new polarization at your command. 

Do you think this a mystery.^ Let us then 
compare it to another mystery, that of the voice 
in singing. How do you produce a tone.^^ Sup- 
pose you wish to sing middle C. This tone is 
made by disturbing the air at the rate of 128 
vibrations to a second of time. Or will you have 
middle D.^ This calls for 144 vibrations to a 
second of time. Middle E calls for 160 vibra- 
tions to the second, and so on up the scale. But 
when you sing these tones you have nothing to 
do with the number of vibrations you set in 
motion, and you need not know of them, any 
more than a bird does in its song. 

What is necessary then in order to produce 
these and other tones? You need simply to ihiiik 
and will to produce a tone and this impulse 
speeds to the vocal organs and sets them vibrat- 



130 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

ing, disturbing the air in the exact ratio demanded 
for the tone. 

These intricate changes in the vocal organs in 
the production of various tones take place in 
response to a command of your thought and 
WILL. You utter the command and the Uni- 
versal Mind sees that it is executed. 

You have the same power over the molecular 
motion in your body. You have only to speak 
the Word and it will be fulfilled as it is in the 
production of tone. 

Remember how a musical tone is made, and 
then, on the same principle think and will 
that the molecules of the body shall whirl to 
the pattern of health, and they will obey your 
Word which is God's Word. 

Speak the Logos and the molecules will obey. 
Also speak the Word to circumstances and they 
too will obey. God sings through you. He 
will also SPEAK through you. 




CHAPTER TWELVE 

NEW THOUGHT LEADS TO THE 
BLESSED LIFE 

IN their effort to get away from too vivid 
a consciousness of material things, some New 
Thought writers are incKned to depreciate or 
totally ignore the office of the external world in 
the evolution of spiritual life. They forget that 
were it not for external stimulus, intelligent 
expression would be impossible. Shut a child 
away from all that acts on his senses and his 
life on this plane becomes extinct. Shut him 
away partially, and in proportion to his seclusion 
does he lack expression. We need this touching 
or impact from the outside to call forth that 
which is within us. 

As Emerson says: "We stand before the secret 
of the world, there where Being passes into 
Appearance and Unity into Variety." 

That is the place where the secret unfolds it- 
self to us, the place where Being is passing into 
Appearance, and Unity is passing into Variety. 

To stand where we see Being and Unity only, 
or Appearance and Variety only, is to stand afar, 
and not be present at the revealing of the secret. 

We who know the secret see all Being as One, 



132 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

but we also see that One as the Continent or 
Container of the Many, the Source of the Many, 
the Projector of the Many. 

This is really the primal or basic truth upon 
which all other truths rest as upon a sure foun- 
dation. When the mind holds this truth it is 
prepared to build upon it. It can see a Perfect 
Whole, a Perfect Good, no matter how imperfect, 
incomplete and apparently evil the Appearance. 

You are asked as a student of New Thought 
to acknowledge that All is Good, but you say: 
''How can I, when I plainly see that a part of 
the All is Evil.? " 

Now you are looking at the Appearance and 
not at Being itself. Can you not imagine a state 
of pure, white light in which there is no shadow. ^^ 
That is Being, the ''light that never shone on 
land or sea." When it does shine on land or 
sea, it becomes Appearance, and is then divided 
into light and darkness, and the darkness is Evil, 
or the appearance of it. Often the light seems 
almost swallowed up in inky blackness, but the 
light shineth ever more and more unto the per- 
fect day. From darkness to light is the evolution 
of the individual; from the darkness of ignorance 
to the light of intelligence, from the darkness of 
hate to the light of love, from the darkness of 
despair to the light of hope, from the darkness 
of sorrow to the light of joy. 

This evolution of light from darkness follows 
the plan of creation when God said, "Let there 
be light." Those words come ringing down the 
ages and the command still is, "Let there be 



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light." In the True Life there is no poverty, 
disease or unhappiness. They are only shadows 
of the ''apparent hfe," and when the True Life 
appears these shadows flee away. 

The Vedanta has a beautiful teaching that the 
Central Consciousness or Being is Pure Bliss, 
and I believe that to be absolutely true. 

The Swami Abhedananda says: ''True Life, 
or Being or Blessedness is beyond time and 
space and is not bound by conditions of any 
kind." He also says: " Unblessedness consists 
in the idea of the separateness of the part from 
the whole, and in the bondages of other imper- 
fections, arising from this mistaken notion of 
individual isolation. To be united to the Whole, 
to be free from the bondages of these imperfec- 
tions, and to be perfect, is Blessedness." 

The New Thought is proving to Man that he 
is not separated from the Whole of Being, but 
that he is one with it and inherits its power and 
perfection. 

Hold up your hand with the fingers extended 
and the palm toward you, and you will see what 
is meant by being one with the Whole. Let 
the palm stand for Being and the fingers stand 
for external expressions of that Being. From 
out the palm extend the fingers and their life 
proceeds from the palm. Sever the connection 
and the fingers die because cut oft' from the 
source of their life. You are a finger on the 
Palm of Being and you are one with it. The 
Living Whole is the sum of its living parts so 
you are one with the Whole. 



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The day is coming, if not now, when you will 
see yourself as continually proceeding from the 
Father, and being born again from moment to 
moment, as new life flows through you. It is 
in this sense that you are a child of God, and not 
in the sense of a child separated from the parent 
body. The ocean is father to the outlet that 
flows forth from it, and the sun is father to the 
ray of light. The ocean gives of itself to its out- 
let and the sun gives of itself to its ray. It is 
thus that God, the Father, gives of Himself by 
continual influx to His children. The only cut- 
ting off or shutting off of this influx that can be 
is in the non-recognition of this truth. We are 
only partially awake concerning ourselves, but 
a fuller awakening is at hand, with which shall 
come a greater influx of life. 

God gives Himself to His children without loss 
to His own Substance because that is infinite 
and inexhaustible, and, moreover, since God 
and Man are of one Substance, that Substance 
merely passes from Centre (God) to Circumfer- 
ence (Man), and is not lost in the passing. 

God gives Himself in Opulence to His Children 

Since God is the Container of all that is ex- 
pressed in the Universe He must be Opulence 
itself, and may truly say: ''Mine are the cattle 
upon a thousand hills," for ''The world is mine 
and the fulness thereof." The Creative Power 
which has made and is making you continually 
also placed vast stores of gold in the mines for the 
use of his children, and gave each of them an 



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Aladdin's lamp, which is really the power of 
DEMAND. The rubbing of this lamp, which brings 
one's desires to pass, is the action of the mind 
in affirming the demand. Then, too, each child 
has the ability to cooperate with the lamp by 
using hand and brain to give to the world a 
fair equivalent for its share of gold from the 
mine. This would be a poor world indeed, 
a world of beggars, if things we desire could be 
had for the asking, for as Channing wisely said: 
"If Man could live on acorns alone he would 
gather his store, lie down under a tree until his 
store was exhausted, when he would gather more 
acorns and lie down again." The Universal In- 
telligence knows that Man requires a stimulus 
to effort, and it fills him with multitudinous 
desires, making him work to actualize them. 

But often the very best work does not bring 
its equivalent in gold, and that is where the 
New Thought Aladdin's lamp helps to bring to 
us our just reward. To know that we are one 
with God and therefore the world is ours and the 
fulness thereof, is to rub the lamp so that our 

OWN MAY COME TO US, IF WE WORK FOR IT. 

God gives Himself in Health to His Children 

You cannot think of God as diseased or weak, 
can you? The Infinite cannot be bound by weak- 
ness or disease, else would it not be infinite. 
In ''The Wisdom of Solomon" it is written: 

"For God made not death, neither hath He 
pleasure in the destruction of the living. 

"For He created all things that they might 



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have their being; and the generations of the 
world were healthful; and there is no poison of 
destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death 
upon the earth. 

"For righteousness is immortal; but ungodly 
men, with their works and words, called death 
to them." 

Thus spoke that wise man Solomon. He knew 
that God did not make death, and that He had 
no pleasure in the destruction of the living. 

All things that God made are living realities, 
and the things He did not make have no real 
existence, though they may seem to have it. 
They are myths, chimeras, figments of the brain, 
illusions of a sick mind. Therefore the sane man 
must brush them aside in order to see the clear 
vision of the world. 

Why did God make men.^ Not that they might 
glorify Him, for He needed no added glory, 
being Perfection and having glory in its fulness. 
No, He made men and all things, simply that they 
might have their being. To this end He made 
them healthful, or in His image; and He placed 
in them no poison of destruction that would pro- 
duce sickness, nor did He institute death in the 
order of creation. As Solomon said — men have 
called death to them, or brought it upon them- 
selves. God gave of His own Substance to make 
man, and that Substance being righteousness is 
immortal. 

God made you and me that we might have 
being that is without the poison of destruction. 
Then away with the miasmic unbelief that de- 



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clares for disease and death as a part of God's 
great plan. 

God is Living, Spiritual Substance, the only 
Substance in the world, the Substance that sub- 
stands, or stands under sun, earth, moon, stars, 
men and all living things, and that is their Source 
of Life. 

God, or Living Substance is eternal, immortal, 
and because you and I are of that Substance we, 
too, are eternal, immortal, and therefore have no 
poison of destruction in us, no disease or cause of 
death. 

God gives Himself in Happiness to His Children 

Since God gives His Substance to Man, He 
must give Happiness, for we cannot conceive 
of God as being unhappy; if so He could not be 
Perfect and Infinite. God is Pure Bliss, and in 
so far as we fall short of this state we fail to 
receive the constant flow of God-Substance. 

New Thought, in its clear vision of the world, 
shows us that God is Wisdom, Power, Love, Per- 
fection, Wholeness, Harmony, Opulence, Beauty, 
Joy, and even more than our present ideals can • 
compass. We sight but dimly the glory that 
is to be revealed in our lives, but the full vision 
may come sooner than we think. The World- 
Illusion is holding our eyes that we cannot see, 
holding our feet that we cannot walk, holding 
our hands that we cannot do. We are self- 
hypnotized by this Illusion, but the Truth stands 
waiting to set us free. 

Let us then bend all our powers to the reali- 



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zation of the one great truth that God flows from 
His Centre of Being to the Circumference, and 
therefore All is God. 

Man, if you will, is the Circumference of God, 
but Man's true being reaches back to the Centre. 

Poverty, disease and unhappiness are not in 
God's Being; therefore they are unreal, evanes- 
cent, fleeting clouds hanging over the life of Man 
for a purpose not yet revealed, and going when 
their work is done. Then shall we know 

THE BLESSED LIFE. 



CHAPTER XIII 
AFFIRMATIONS FOR ACHIEVEMENT 

IN walking the path to achievement you must 
be equipped, and the equipment must be 
mental. You will not undertake the journey 
unless you are spurred on by courage and hope, 
and that courage and hope can only come to you 
through a knowledge of your one-ness with the 
Unconquerable World Energy, which in other 
phrase is God. 

If you lack courage and hope, I would advise 
you to go in training by use of the following 
formulae: 

Part One 

I am open on my inner or spiritual side to the 
inexhaustible ocean of Divine Power. I flow 
from it and am one with it as a bay is one with 
the ocean or a ray of light is one with the sun. 
All achievement is mine through the working of 
this Power. I shall succeed in all my under- 
takings. 

Part Two 

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their 
strength; they shall mount up with wings as 



140 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 

eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they 
shall walk and not faint. 

Part Three 

Power is within. I am a generating center of 
Power, therefore my Power is within myself and 
not outside of me. I need not wait for circum- 
stances to improve through some outside influence, 
for I can change them myself by the Power that 
is within me. Power is within. 

Part Four 

Having learned that I am one with God, the 
Infinite and Eternal Energy, and having also 
learned to look for a radiating center of that 
Energy within my own spiritual being, I now 
declare that I will radiate Power, even to the ends 
of the earth, if need be, TO BRING TO ME 
MY OWN, by which I mean that which is related 
to me, that which will help me to express my 
higher self, to do the most good in the world and 
ensure my greatest happiness. With concentra- 
tion of all my being: 

I NOW CALL TO ME MY OWN 

AND 

IT SHALL COME TO ME. 

Part Five 

Faith steps out on seeming void and finds the 
solid rock. 



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Part Six 

The World is my Keyboard and I can play upon 
it now. 

Part Seven 
I drink at the Fountain of Eternal Joy. 

Commit the above to memory, part by part, 
and meditate upon it at night, just before you 
sleep. It is during sleep that the Subconscious 
Mind is most receptive to suggestions from the 
Conscious, and is ready to act upon them in order 
to bring to you your own in various forms. 

The foregoing formula for achievement is an 
outcome of my own life and experience and leads 
to success in any line of endeavor. If you under- 
stand and use it aright it will help you to heal 
yourself and others and succeed in anything you 
undertake. It gives the principles by which 
health is attained, happiness established, and 
financial abundance secured. 

SELAH 





BIBLIOGRAPHY 



My current of thought has been fed and en- 
larged by the intake of ideas from such minds 
as the following: Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Fene- 
lon, Herbert Spencer, The Swami Abhedananda, 
Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes, Alfred 
Russell Wallace, Madame Annie Besant, Pro- 
fessor Bose of the Institute of Calcutta, Profes- 
sors William James and Josiah Royce of Harvard, 
Dr. Gibier of the Pasteur Institute, Dr. Carrel 
of the Rockefeller Institute and Sir William 
Gull, a noted surgeon of England, who said, 
*'What shall the doctors do? Rest and be still. 
He who made the machine (the body) can repair 
it." 



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